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The phase behaviour of the dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) monolayer affected by the penetration of bovine beta-lactoglobulin has been investigated. Penetration of beta-lactoglobulin into fluidlike DPPC monolayers induces a first-order main phase transition of DPPC.

Abstract: The complementary drop and bubble profile analysis and maximum bubble pressure tensiometry are used to measure the dynamic surface tension of aqueous SDS solutions in the presence of hardness salts (CaCl2 and MgCl2 in the ratio of 2:1 at concentrations of 6 and 40FH). The presence of hardness salts results in an essential increase of the SDS adsorption activity, which indicates the formation of Ca(DS)2 and Mg(DS)2 in the SDS solutions. The surface tension isotherms of SDS in presence of Ca(DS)2 and Mg(DS)2 are described using the generalised Frumkin model. The presence of hardness salts accelerates the ageing of SDS solutions as compared with the addition of 0.01M NaCl due to a faster hydrolysis and hence formation of dodecanol. These results are used to estimate the possible concentration of dodecanol in the studied SDS solutions. The buoyant bubble profile method with harmonic surface oscillations is used to measure the dilational rheology of SDS solutions in presence of hardness salts in the frequency range between 0.005Hz and 0.2Hz. The visco-elasticity modulus in the presence of hardness salts is higher as compared with its values in the presence of 0.01M NaCl additions. The ageing of SDS solutions leads to an essential increase of the visco-elastic modulus. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Recent work has provided experimental and theoretical evidence that a first order fluid/condensed (LE/LC) phase transition can occur in adsorbed monolayers of amphiphiles and surfactants which are dissolved in aqueous solution. Similar to Langmuir monolayers, also in the case of adsorbed monolayers, the existence of a G/LE phase transition, as assumed by several authors, is a matter of question. Representative studies, at first performed with a tailored amphiphile and later with numerous other amphiphiles, also with n-dodecanol, provide insight into the main characteristics of the adsorbed monolayer during the adsorption kinetics. The general conditions necessary for the formation of a two-phase coexistence in adsorbed monolayers can be optimally studied using dynamic surface pressure measurements, Brewster angle microscopy (BAM) and synchrotron X-ray diffraction at grazing incidence (GIXD). A characteristic break point in the time dependence of the adsorption kinetics curves indicates the phase transition which is largely affected by the concentration of the amphiphile in the aqueous solution and on the temperature. Formation and growth of condensed phase domains after the phase transition point are visualised by BAM. As demonstrated by a tailored amphiphile, various types of morphological textures of the condensed phase can occur in different temperature regions. Lattice structure and tilt angle of the alkyl chains in the condensed phase of the adsorbed monolayer are determined using GIXD. The main growth directions of the condensed phase textures are correlated with the two-dimensional lattice structure. The results, obtained for the characteristics of the condensed phase after a first order main transition, are supported by experimental bridging to the Langmuir monolayers. Phase transition of adsorbing trace impurities in model surfactants can strongly affect the characteristics of the main component. Dodecanol present as minor component in aqueous sodium dodecylsulfate solution dominate largely the fundamental features of the adsorbed monolayer of the mixed dodecanol/SDS solutions at adsorption equilibrium. A theoretical concept on the basis of the quasi-chemical model and assumption of the entropy non-ideality has been developed which can well describe the experimental results of the diffusion kinetics of surfactant adsorption from solutions. The model regards the phase behaviour of adsorbed monolayers on the basis of the experimental results explicitly supported by the first order fluid/condensed phase transition and theoretical models assuming bimodal distribution between large aggregates (domains) and monomers and/or very small aggregates. Another simple theoretical model for the description of the coadsorption of surfactant mixtures, based on the additivity of the contributions brought by the solution components into the surface pressure is shown to be in qualitative agreement with the experimental data of mixed dodecanol/SDS solutions. The theoretical results corroborate the fact that the formed condensed phase (large aggregates) in the mixed monolayer consists mainly of dodecanol. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: The adsorption kinetics, adsorption isotherm and the dilational surface rheology at low oscillation frequencies of sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) were studied by drop and bubble profile, and bubble pressure tensiometry. The effect of the inevitably present dodecanol in any SDS solution is taken into account by interpreting the experimental data with theoretical models valid for mixed surfactant solutions. In particular the dilational rheology method appears to be very suitable for demonstrating the continuously on-going hydrolysis reaction in a SDS solution, as the resulting dilational elasticities and viscosities change from a frequency dependencies characteristic to SDS to those expected for dodecanol adsorption layers. For surfactants as active as dodecanol, it turns out that all adsorption and rheological quantities depend significantly on the use of drop or bubble profile tensiometry, i.e. the small reservoir of available surface active molecules in a single droplet has to be considered quantitatively to obtain reliable data. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: The adsorption kinetics of four Tritons (TX45, TX100, TX165 and TX405) was studied by using the complementary drop and bubble profile and maximum bubble pressure tensiometry methods. While TX45 and TX100 can be quantitatively described by a diffusion controlled adsorption mechanism, based on the reorientation model for describing the equilibrium state of adsorption, the results for TX165 and TX405 deviate significantly from this adsorption mechanism. With additional assumptions, such as a finite rate constant for the transition of adsorbed molecules between states of different molar area, and effects of the composition of the Triton samples by many compounds of different ethylene oxide chains, a much better description of the experimental data is possible. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]