Monte Carlo lattice simulation of amphiphilic systems in two and three dimensions.

An idealized lattice model for amphiphile-oil-water systems is considered in which oil and water molecules occupy single sites and amphiphiles occupy chains of sites. The amphiphile molecules have lengths of from one head unit and one tail unit to four head units and four tail units. Energies, free energies, equilibrium phase diagrams, and solution structures are estimated by Monte Carlo sampling of configuration space for both two and three dimensional lattices.