Surfactants adsorbed

The topic of spreading rates is of importance in the technology of the use of mono-layers for evaporation control (see Section IV-6) it is also important, in the opposite sense, in the lubrication of fine bearings, as in watches, where it is necessary that the small drop of oil remain in place and not be dissipated by spreading. Zisman and coworkers have found that spreading rates can be enhanced or reduced by the presence of small amounts of impurities in particular, strongly adsorbed surfactants can form a film over which the oil will not spread [48]. 

Yeskie M A and Harwell J H 1988 On the structure of aggregates of adsorbed surfactants The surface charge... 

At the shear plane, fluid motion relative to the particle surface is 2ero. For particles with no adsorbed surfactant or ionic atmosphere, this plane is at the particle surface. Adsorbed surfactant or ions that are strongly attracted to the particle, with their accompanying solvent, prevent Hquid motion close to the particle, thus moving the shear plane away from the particle surface. The effective potential at the shear plane is called the 2eta potential, It is smaller than the potential at the surface, but because it is difficult to determine 01 To usual assumption is that /q is effectively equal to which can be... 

Effects of Surfactants on Solutions. A surfactant changes the properties of a solvent ia which it is dissolved to a much greater extent than is expected from its concentration effects. This marked effect is the result of adsorption at the solution s iaterfaces, orientation of the adsorbed surfactant ions or molecules, micelle formation ia the bulk of the solution, and orientation of the surfactant ions or molecules ia the micelles, which are caused by the amphipathic stmcture of a surfactant molecule. The magnitude of these effects depends to a large extent on the solubiUty balance of the molecule. An efficient surfactant is usually relatively iasoluble as iadividual ions or molecules ia the bulk of a solution, eg, 10 to mol/L. 

The stabihty of a single foam film can be explained by the Gibbs elasticity E which results from the reduction ia equiUbrium surface concentration of adsorbed surfactant molecules when the film is extended (15). This produces an iacrease ia equiUbrium surface tension that acts as a restoring force. The Gibbs elasticity is given by equation 1 where O is surface tension and is surface area of the film. 

The ITIES with an adsorbed monolayer of surfactant has been studied as a model system of the interface between microphases in a bicontinuous microemulsion [39]. This latter system has important applications in electrochemical synthesis and catalysis [88-92]. Quantitative measurements of the kinetics of electrochemical processes in microemulsions are difficult to perform directly, due to uncertainties in the area over which the organic and aqueous reactants contact. The SECM feedback mode allowed the rate of catalytic reduction of tra 5-l,2-dibromocyclohexane in benzonitrile by the Co(I) form of vitamin B12, generated electrochemically in an aqueous phase to be measured as a function of interfacial potential drop and adsorbed surfactants [39]. It was found that the reaction at the ITIES could not be interpreted as a simple second-order process. In the absence of surfactant at the ITIES the overall rate of the interfacial reaction was virtually independent of the potential drop across the interface and a similar rate constant was obtained when a cationic surfactant (didodecyldimethylammonium bromide) was adsorbed at the ITIES. In contrast a threefold decrease in the rate constant was observed when an anionic surfactant (dihexadecyl phosphate) was used. 

Of special interest in liquid dispersions are the surface-active agents that tend to accumulate at air/ liquid, liquid/liquid, and/or solid/liquid interfaces. Surfactants can arrange themselves to form a coherent film surrounding the dispersed droplets (in emulsions) or suspended particles (in suspensions). This process is an oriented physical adsorption. Adsorption at the interface tends to increase with increasing thermodynamic activity of the surfactant in solution until a complete monolayer is formed at the interface or until the active sites are saturated with surfactant molecules. Also, a multilayer of adsorbed surfactant molecules may occur, resulting in more complex adsorption isotherms. 

The differences between the two curves can be explained by the sulfonate (the most adsorbed surfactant) monomer concentrations at equilibrium, which were reached in both cases, considering the amounts of surfactants, liquid and solid present. Figure 4 shows a distinct evolution of monomer concentrations for the two solid/liquid ratios considered. 

As suggested above, the main recovery mechanism of surfactants retained in the rock can be interpreted as a micellization phenomenon inside the pores. Upon contact with micelles from the desorbent agent, the adsorbed surfactants are solubilized in the form of mixed micelles. This also explains the effectiveness of the desorbent still observed at low concentration (0.27% in Test 3 in Table in, concentration much higher than the CMC of NP 30 EO equal to 0.016%). 

Optimal Salinities The phase inversion process may be considered to reflect the balanced nature of the adsorbed surfactant species at the oil/water interface. Simple geometric packing... 

E is one of several elasticity numbers characterizing the stabilizing effect which adsorbed surfactant molecules have on an interface during mass-transfer processes (22). Note that E is inversely proportional to the capillary radius so that the effect of soluble surfactants on the bubble-flow resistance is larger for smaller capillary radii. 

Experiment C is designed to yield information on the amount of the surfactant that is actually adsorbed on the rock. This experiment measures the variation of surfactant concentration at the outlet of the core, after injection of a "slug of surfactant. The surfactant concentration in the brine depends on the position along the core and on time. The experiment is dynamic because the changing, but near equilibrium level of the adsorbed surfactant at any point along the rock sample is a function of the concentration in the solution at that point. This is described by the adsorption isotherm from a plot of M, the mass of surfactant adsorbed per gram of rock vs. Concentration. 

Novel fluorescent anionic surfactants of the types 11.33 and 11.34, where R represents alkyl groups of various lengths, have been applied to wool in order to study their distribution and effects on the physical and chemical properties of the fibre. Sections of the treated fibres were examined under a fluorescence microscope. The intercellular and cell remnant regions appeared to be the preferred locations of the adsorbed surfactants, but the distribution pattern was dependent on the length of the R chain of the surfactant and the conditions of application to wool [52]. 

The emulsion which contains the substrate (1) spills its content into the catalyst material (2), the catalytic process takes place (3) and then the adsorbed surfactant carries the product back into solution (4). (Reproduced from ref. 18, with permission.)... 

On the basis of the above experimental results, the expected conformations of polymer-surfactant complexes at the oil-water interface are depicted in Fig. 2.19. In case I, the added polymer associates with excess surfactants present in the bulk solution, but the complexes prefer to remain in the bulk phase. Alternately, the polymer-surfactant complexes are unable to displace the adsorbed surfactant molecules from the liquid-liquid interface. Irrespective of the amount of polymer-surfactant concentration in the bulk, the experimental decay length values remain comparable to the Debye lengths, corresponding to the concentration of ion species in the bulk solution (Eq. (2.11)). This means that the force profile is... 

As is known, if one blows air bubbles in pure water, no foam is formed. On the other hand, if a detergent or protein (amphiphile) is present in the system, adsorbed surfactant molecules at the interface produce foam or soap bubble. Foam can be characterized as a coarse dispersion of a gas in a liquid, where the gas is the major phase volume. The foam, or the lamina of liquid, will tend to contract due to its surface tension, and a low surface tension would thus be expected to be a necessary requirement for good foam-forming property. Furthermore, in order to be able to stabilize the lamina, it should be able to maintain slight differences of tension in its different regions. Therefore, it is also clear that a pure liquid, which has constant surface tension, cannot meet this requirement. The stability of such foams or bubbles has been related to monomolecular film structures and stability. For instance, foam stability has been shown to be related to surface elasticity or surface viscosity, qs, besides other interfacial forces. 

The weak surfactant solution forms bubbles on agitation in the aqueous phase, which are stabilized as microscopic spheres from coalescing into large bubbles by the orientation of insoluble surfactant across the air/ liquid interface and by adhering to the hydrophobic surface created on the cement particle by the adsorbed surfactant. This is shown diagrammatically in Fig. 3.15 [16]. 

Figure 5.1 Illustration of the effect of an adsorbed surfactant layer on the interfacial energy between oil and water.

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