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What are the liquids involved in the formation of roughly spherical micelles at highest possible temperatures? What about surfactants? At how high temperatures have micelles been observed experimentally?

For obvious reasons, mostly micelles are studied in aqueous solutions. I wonder if there are similar phenomena in metallurgy or liquid minerals, for example.

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    $\begingroup$ Would you consider opal formation as micelles? If limited to organic molecules the temperature ranges are pretty limited. $\endgroup$
    – Jon Custer
    Commented Jun 18 at 14:50
  • $\begingroup$ @JonCuster I intended to ask about supramolecular chemistry, as the tag suggests. I may have not found the best words to distinguish molecular micelles and those composed of equidistant atoms (Si-O-Si linkages in 3 dimensions give only 1 molecule per micelle in opals) $\endgroup$
    – Paul Kolk
    Commented Jun 18 at 17:42

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