Phase Behavior in n-Alkanes

In the preceding section, it was seen that the monoglycerol fatty acid esters could not form any liquid-crystalline phases in liquid paraffin, squalane, and squalene. Phase-behavior studies have shown that the surfactants of this class do not form any liquid-crystalline phases in n-alkanes also. At normal room temperature, there is a solid phase in equilibrium with an excess oil phase in glycerol a-monolaurate 

Phase Behavior of Diglycerol Fatty Acid Ester/Oil Systems 

In this section, the nonaqueous phase behavior of homologous series of diglycerol fatty acid esters in a variety of nonpolar oils will be discussed. The binary phase behavior of these surfactants in liquid paraffin, squalane, and squalene will be described first and then the phase behavior in -alkanes and aromatic oils. The data presented in this section are rendered from Ref. [9] and [65], respectively. 

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