Adsorption of Equimolar Mixtures of Cationic and Anionic Surfactants at the Water/Hexane Interface

Autor: Nenad Mucic, Jelena Skrbic, Sandra Bucko, Lidija Petrovic, Jaroslav Katona, Valentin B. Fainerman, Eugene V. Aksenenko, Emanuel Schneck, Reinhard Miller
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Colloids and Interfaces, Vol 5, Iss 1, p 1 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2504-5377
DOI: 10.3390/colloids5010001
Popis: In mixed solutions of anionic and cationic surfactants, called catanionics, ion pairs are formed which behave like non-ionic surfactants with a much higher surface activity than the single components. In equimolar mixtures of NaCnSO4 and CmTAB, all surface-active ions are paired. For mixtures with n + m = const, the interfacial properties are rather similar. Catanionics containing one long-chain surfactant and one surfactant with medium chain length exhibit a strong increase in surface activity as compared with the single compounds. In contrast, catanionics of one medium- and one short chain surfactant have a surface activity similar to that of the medium-chain surfactant alone. Both the Frumkin model and the reorientation model describe the experimental equilibrium data equally well, while the adsorption kinetics of the mixed medium- and short-chain surfactants can be well described only with the reorientation model.
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