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J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996, 118, 6499-6505

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Dispensing Surfactants from Electrodes: Marangoni Phenomenon at the Surface of Aqueous Solutions of (11-Ferrocenylundecyl)trimethylammonium Bromide Doyle E. Bennett, Benedict S. Gallardo, and Nicholas L. Abbott* Contribution from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, UniVersity of California, DaVis, California 95616-5294 ReceiVed March 19, 1996X

Abstract: Electrochemical methods in combination with redox-active surfactants form the basis of a procedure to create gradients in surfactant-based properties of solutions. The gradients are created by the formation of surfaceactive species at controlled rates in spatially localized (