Solubilization of Phenanthrene and Fluorene in Equimolar Binary Mixtures of Gemini/Conventional Surfactants

abstract This study deals with the enhanced solubilization of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) such as phenan-threne (PHE) and fluorene (FLR) in a pure cationic gemini (G6) and three conventiona...     

A Systematic Study of Mixed Surfactant Solutions of a Cationic Ester-Bonded Dimeric Surfactant with Cationic, Anionic and Nonionic Monomeric Surfactants in Aqueous Media

A novel cationic biodegradable dimeric (gemini) surfactant, ethane-1,2-diyl bis(N,N-dimethyl-N-hexadecylammoniumacetoxy) dichloride (16-E2-16), containing an ester-linked spacer was synthesized. Its pure and mixed micellization properties with monomeric surfactants cetyl trimethyl ammonium chloride, cetyl pyridinium chloride, sodium dodecyl sulfate, sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate, cetyl alcohol ethoxylate (20EO) and tert-octylphenol ethoxylate (9.5EO) were investigated by surface tension measurements at 30 °C. The critical micelle concentration (CMC) of 16-E2-16 is well below that of cetyl trimethyl ammonium chloride containing the same number of carbon atoms in the hydrophobic tail per polar head. At different mole fractions of the gemini surfactant, the CMCs of the gemini-conventional binary mixtures were determined and were found to be less than the ideal CMC values in all the cases indicating synergistic interactions. Aggregation number and Stern–Volmer constant, obtained by the fluorescence quenching technique, also support the synergistic behavior of the surfactant systems.     

Synergistic Behavior and Microstructure Transition in Mixture of Zwitterionic Surfactant,Anionic Surfactant,and Salts in Sorbitol/H<Subscript>2</Subscript>O Solvent: 1. Effect of Surfactant Compositions

The phase behavior and rheological properties of a multi-component system, made of a zwitterionic surfactant cocoamidopropyl betaine (CAPB), an anionic surfactant sodium lauryl sulfate (SLSS), and mixed salts (tetrasodium pyrophosphate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sacharrin, and sodium fluoride) in sorbitol/H₂O mixed solvent at different mass fraction of SLSS (X _SLSS) were systematically investigated by steady and dynamic rheology, dynamic light scattering, and diffusion ordered spectroscopy (DOSY). When fixing the salt concentration and the mass ratio of sorbitol in mixed solvent (R), the zero-shear viscosity increases first and then decreases showing a maximum with increasing X _SLSS, resulting from the formation and entanglement of wormlike micelles. Especially when X _SLSS is between 0.33 and 0.80, the mixture is dominated by entangled wormlike micelles coexisting with small micelles and separated wormlike micelles, and shows high viscoelasticity. The maximum of the zero-shear viscosity is ca. 5 orders of magnitude larger than that of sorbitol/H₂O mixed solvent or the CAPB/SLSS aqueous solution. The characteristic structural parameters for the micellar solutions at different X _SLSS are also estimated from further analysis of the rheological results, and indicate the stronger network structures of the wormlike micelles are formed in our systems compared with the wormlike micelles formed by a traditional zwitterionic/anionic surfactant aqueous solutions. The great improvements of rheological properties are attributed to the strong screening effects of the mixed salts and the strong solvophobic effect of sorbitol on the electrostatic and hydrophobic interaction between the CAPB and SLSS molecules. The present work has improved our understanding about the aggregation behavior of zwitterionic/anionic mixed surfactants with salts in less polar solvent/H₂O mixture, which would be of widely practical importance to optimize the formulation of products for personal care and household cleaning.     

On the Applicability of the Regular Solution Theory to Multicomponent Systems

The critical micelle concentration (CMC) of aqueous mixtures of decyl- (C₁₀TAB), dodecyl- (C₁₂TAB), and tetradecyl trimethyl ammonium (C₁₄TAB) bromides has been studied in the complete triangular diagram. The results have been analyzed on the basis of the multicomponent regular solution theory for mixed micelles (MRST). It has been found that the mixtures of both, two or three components, contrary to the MRST theory assumptions, have a nonideal behavior. Both the experimental CMC, (CMC _ijk )_exp, and that computed with the MRST, (CMC _ijk )_calc), were lower than the ideal one, (CMC _ijk )_id, indicating an attractive interaction. Moreover, in the majority of the triangular diagram (CMC _ijk )_exp differs significantly from (CMC _ijk )_calc. This suggests that the assumption in the MRST that the interaction among the three different homologue molecules in the mixed micelle computed using the binary regular solution theory interaction parameters obtained from binary mixtures may be an oversimplification. This has been reinforced by analysis of the intramicellar activity coefficients of components, indicating differences in the surrounding of the component molecules when they are in bi- or tricomponent micelles. The excess free energy of micellization in three-component systems indicates that the more stable mixed micelles are those having an excess of the shorter components (C₁₀TAB–C₁₂TAB) and <50 % of the longer one (C₁₄TAB). Furthermore, the common statement that mixtures of homologue surfactants are ideal is not supported by this work.     

Mixed Micellization of Sodium Dodecylbenzene Sulfonate with Polyoxyethylene Lauryl Ether Surfactants (POLE4 and POLE23) in n-Butanol Aqueous Solution

The values of critical micelle concentration and counterion binding constant for the mixed micellizations of sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate (DBS) with polyoxyethylene(4) lauryl ether (POLE4) and polyoxyethylene(23) lauryl ether (POLE23) in aqueous solution of n-butanol at 25 °C were determined as a function of the overall mole fraction of DBS by using the electric conductivity and the surface tension methods. Various thermodynamic parameters were calculated and analyzed for the mixed micellization of DBS/POLE4 and DBS/POLE23 systems by means of the equations derived from the nonideal mixed micellar model. The results show that DBS/POLE23 mixed system has a greater deviation from the ideal model than DBS/POLE4 mixed system. These deviations of thermodynamic parameters for both mixed systems become greater with the addition and concentration increase of n-butanol.     

Phase behavior of temperature‐ and pH‐sensitive poly(acrylic acid‐g‐N‐isopropylacrylamide) in dilute aqueous solution

Several different composition temperature‐ and pH‐sensitive poly(acrylic acid‐g‐N‐isopropylacrylamide) (P(AA‐g‐NIPAM)) graft copolymers were synthesized by free‐radical copolymerization utilizing macromonomer technique. The phase behavior and conformation change of P(AA‐g‐NIPAM) in aqueous solutions were investigated by UV–vis transmittance measurements, fluorescence probe, and fluorescence quenching techniques. The results demonstrate that the P(AA‐g‐NIPAM) copolymers have temperature‐ and pH‐sensitivities, and these different composition graft copolymers have different lower critical solution temperature (LCST) and critical phase transition pH values. The LCST of graft copolymer decreases with increasing PNIPAM content, and the critical phase transition pH value increases with increasing Poly(N‐isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) content. At room temperature (20°C), different composition of P(AA‐g‐NIPAM) graft copolymers in dilute aqueous solutions (0.001 wt %) have a loose conformation, and there is no hydrophobic microdomain formation within researching pH range (pH 3 ～ 10). In addition, for the P(AA‐g‐NIPAM) aqueous solutions, transition from coil to globular is an incomplete reversible process in heating and cooling cycles. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2008