1. Effects of glycols on the thermodynamic and micellar properties of TTAB in water
- Author
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Gaspar Fernández, María del Mar Graciani, María Luisa Moyá, and Amalia Rodríguez
- Subjects
Inorganic chemistry ,technology, industry, and agriculture ,Micelle ,Surfaces, Coatings and Films ,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials ,Biomaterials ,Propene ,Surface tension ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Colloid and Surface Chemistry ,Sulfonate ,Adsorption ,chemistry ,Chemical engineering ,Pulmonary surfactant ,Micellar solutions ,Ethylene glycol - Abstract
Aggregation of tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide, TTAB, in mixed solvent systems containing ethylene glycol, EG, 1,2-propylene glycol, 1,2-PROP, 1,3-propylene glycol, 1,3-PROP, and tetraethylene glycol, TEG, has been investigated by employing conductivity and fluorescence methods. Gibbs energies of micellization were determined in order to evaluate the effects of the co-solvent on the aggregation process. Information about the influence of the organic solvent on the surfactant adsorption at the air-solution interface, on the micellar size and on the polarity of the micellar interfacial region was obtained by means of surface tension and fluorescence measurements. The study of the reaction methyl naphthalene-2-sulfonate + Br - in the water–glycol TTAB micellar solutions provided information about the characteristics of TTAB micelles as microreactors in the water–solvent binary mixtures.
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- 2009