Molecular dynamics simulation of pyrene solubilized in a sodium dodecyl sulfate micelle. 2012

Hui Yan, and Peng Cui, and Cheng-Bu Liu, and Shi-Ling Yuan
Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Shandong University, Jinan, China.

In the present work, the structural and dynamical aspects of the solubilization process of pyrene within a sodium dodecyl sulfate micelle were studied using molecular dynamics simulations. Our results showed that free pyrene as the fluorescence probe can be spontaneously solubilized into the micelle and prefers to be located in the hydrophobic core region. As the local concentration of pyrene increased, two molecular probes could enter into the core hydrophobic region and the excited dimer of pyrene molecules was formed, showing a stacking mode of π-π conjugation. Since the π-π stacking interaction between the two pyrene molecules was very weak, formation of the excimer was a dynamic process with the two pyrene molecules alternately separating and associating with each other. In this case, the two pyrene molecules were found to be mainly distributed in the palisade layer of the micelle due to the balance between the weak π-π stacking interaction and the hydrophobic interaction of probe molecules with the surfactant tails.

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