Electric conductivity in microemulsions
- 1 October 1993
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 99 (7), 5605-5614
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.465953
Abstract
Microemulsions exhibit a rather sudden change of electric conductivity upon varying either composition at fixed temperature, or temperature at fixed mean composition. In literature this has been interpreted as a percolationlike process. In this paper we question this interpretation, and suggest instead that the change of conductivity is caused by a dispersion inversion that takes place in a plane through the symmetry axes of the three‐phase body, irrespective of the volume fraction of the conducting phase.Keywords
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