Green areas represent moderate stability, lying between unstable and stable. As shown in Figure A, the van der Waals forces provided by the long alkane chain of 12 carbons exhibit an overall trend of instability, with stability significantly decreasing in regions where hydrogen atoms are present.
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Mechanisms of Intermolecular Interactions and Molecular Dynamics in Anionic and Nonionic Surfactant Microemulsions.
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