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| Multicompartment micelles are a new family of micelles that may find wide applications; however, due to their complexity, the knowledge on them is quite limited to date. In this work, dissipative particle dynamics simulations were performed to investigate the morphology and structure of multicompartment micellar solutions confined in two hydrophilic walls, as a function of slit width. The results show that pore width can influence largely the morphology and structure of multicompartment micellar solutions confined in hydrophilic walls, the commonly observed “confinement-induced alignment” also occurs in multicompartment micellar solutions, and confinement can induce new morphologies, which can also speed up and enhance the formation of large multicompartment micelles. In addition, this work shows that a strong external field can change the alignment of multicompartment micelles, leading to new well-defined ordered structures. The information obtained may be useful for experimental investigations, as well as for understanding multicompartment micelles at molecular level. |
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| Keywords:Dissipative particle dynamics, multicompartment micelles, slit |
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