%0 Journal Article %A Zaffalon, Pierre-Leonard %A D'Anna, Vincenza %A Hagemann, Hans %A Zumbuehl, Andreas %T Study of Surfactant Alcohols with various Chemical Motives at the Hydrophilic/Hydrophobic Interface %J RSC Advances %@ 2046-2069 %V 3 %N 20 %P 7237-7244 %D 2013 %U http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2013/RA/c3ra40704g %R 10.1039/c3ra40704g %U http://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:27864 %X The melting behavior, the solubility, and the influence of hydrogen bonds were analyzed for a series of single- and double-tailed surfactant alcohols. Various effects such as the presence of free amides or the intermolecular spacing were found to be important factors for increasing or decreasing the melting temperature of a surfactant. Furthermore, we present a model for the packing of diamido-lipids and study the temperature-dependence of the IR signals.