Pentaethylene glycol monododecyl ether
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Pentaethylene glycol monododecyl ether (C12E5) is a nonionic surfactant
Surfactant
Surfactants are compounds that lower the surface tension of a liquid, the interfacial tension between two liquids, or that between a liquid and a solid...

. Its critical micelle concentration
Critical micelle concentration
In colloidal and surface chemistry, the critical micelle concentration is defined as the concentration of surfactants above which micelles form and almost all additional surfactants added to the system go to micelles....

 (CMC) is 7×10-5 M at 25 °C.

MLV Formation

Recently it has been showed that the lamellar phase at 40wt% of C12E5 dissolved in 2H2O form Multilamellar Vesicles under shear rate.
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