Micelles immobilized in polymer materials are of emerging interest in drug delivery, water treatment and other applications. Immobilization removes the need for membrane-based separation to eliminate micelles from the medium, enabling facile extraction and delivery in diverse industries. This work lays out a coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations framework for the rapid identification of surfactants for use in immobilized micelle systems. Micelles are immobilized by constraining one end of the constituent surfactants in space, mimicking what would occur in a copolymer system. We demonstrate that constraints affect how the micelles interact with small hydrophobic molecules, making it important to account for their effects in various drug-micelle and pollutant-micelle simulations. Our results show that in several systems there is stronger interaction between hydrophobic small molecules and micelles in immobilized systems compared to unconstrained systems. These strengthened interactions can have important implications for the design of new micelle-based extraction and delivery processes.
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