Polystyrene latex adsorption

Serizawa and Akashi [95] analyzed the monolayer adsorption of polystyrene latex particles with cationic polyvinylamine grafted on their surface, while Serizawa et al. [96,97] used commercial anionic latex particles. Both types of particles were adsorbed on polyelectrolyte-coated substrates previously prepared by alternating adsorption of cationic and anionic polyelectrolytes such as polyallylamine hydrochloride (PAH) and polystyrene sulfonate sodium salt (PSS) according to the method described by Decher [164]. Using... 

The following protocol for passive adsorption is based on methods reported for use with hydrophobic polymeric particles, such as polystyrene latex beads or copolymers of the same. Other polymer particle types also may be used in this process, provided they have the necessary hydrophobic character to promote adsorption. For particular proteins, conditions may need to be optimized to take into consideration maximal protein stability and activity after adsorption. Some proteins may undergo extensive denaturation after immobilization onto hydrophobic surfaces therefore, covalent methods of coupling onto more hydrophilic particle surfaces may be a better choice for maintaining native protein structure and long-term stability. 

Adsorption-Desorption Behavior of Polyvinyl Alcohol on Polystyrene Latex Particles... 

The adsorption of fully and partially hydrolyzed (88%) polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) on 190-1lOOnm monodisperse polystyrene latex particles was investigated. The effect of molecular weight was investigated for 190 nm-size particles using the serum replacement adsorption and desorption methods. The adsorption density at the adsorption-isotherm plateau followed the relationships for the fully hydrolyzed... 

Figure 2. Adsorption isotherms of HPC-M, HEC-H and PVAonto polystyrene latex particles at 1 8 °C.

Figure 3. Temperature dependences of saturated adsorption (As) of HPC onto polystyrene latex particles.

In this paper we present results for a series of PEO fractions physically adsorbed on per-deutero polystyrene latex (PSL) in the plateau region of the adsorption isotherm. Hydro-dynamic and adsorption measurements have also been made on this system. Using a porous layer theory developed recently by Cohen Stuart (10) we have calculated the hydrodynamic thickness of these adsorbed polymers directly from the experimental density profiles. The results are then compared with model calculations based on density profiles obtained from the Scheutjens and Fleer (SF) layer model of polymer adsorption (11). 

Adsorption Isotherm The adsorption Isotherm of PVA on polystyrene latex was of the high affinity type, as previously found (15). 

Studies on orthokinetic flocculation (shear flow dominating over Brownian motion) show a more ambiguous picture. Both rate increases (9,10) and decreases (11,12) compared with orthokinetic coagulation have been observed. Gregory (12) treated polymer adsorption as a collision process and used Smoluchowski theory to predict that the adsorption step may become rate limiting in orthokinetic flocculation. Qualitative evidence to this effect was found for flocculation of polystyrene latex, particle diameter 1.68 pm, in laminar tube flow. Furthermore, pretreatment of half of the latex with polymer resulted in collision efficiencies that were more than twice as high as for coagulation. 

Competitive Adsorption of an Anionic and a Nonionic Surfactant on Polystyrene Latex... 

The nonionic surfactant, nonylphenol deca(oxyethylene glycol) monoether, NP-EO10, supplied by Berol Kemi AB, Stenungsund, Sweden, was of technical grade and used without further purification. The main impurity is free polyethylene oxide. Analysis of the sample gave a polyethylene oxide content of = 3% (4). Note, that polyethylene oxide adsorbs on polystyrene latexes ( ), but a monolayer is reached at solution concentrations that are 10 times the concentration required to obtain a monolayer coverage with NP-EO q. The free polyethylene oxide, therefore, is expected to have negligible influence on the adsorption measurements. 

Adsorption on Polystyrene Latex. Figure 3 shows the adsorption isotherms of the two single surfactants, NP-EO q and SDS, on the polystyrene latex surface. Both isotherms reach a limiting value when the cmc is approached. The lines drawn in the figure are calculated from the fitting Equation 19. The adsorption free energies, as obtained from Equation 21, are shown in Table I. The table also shows the two contributions to Ap, according to Equation 21, where the first contribution is obtained from the cmc s and the second from the difference between the two terms in Equation 21. 

Figure 3. Adsorption of NP-EO q (a) and SDS (b) on polystyrene latex. The lines are isotherms calculated by fitting of Equation 19.

Figure 4. Adsorption of a 30/70 mixture of NP-EO- o and SDS on polystyrene latex. The lines are dravm to make the best fit considering the inaccuracy in the determination of the total surfactant concentration. The arrow indicates the cmc of the surfactant mixture.

Recent investigations have shown that the behavior and interactions of surfactants in a polyvinyl acetate latex are quite different and complex compared to that in a polystyrene latex (1, 2). Surfactant adsorption at the fairly polar vinyl acetate latex surface is generally weak (3,4) and at times shows a complex adsorption isotherm (2). Earlier work (5,6) has also shown that anionic surfactants adsorb on polyvinyl acetate, then slowly penetrate into the particle leading to the formation of a poly-electroyte type solubilized polymer-surfactant complex. Such a solubilization process is generally accompanied by an increase in viscosity. The first objective of this work is to better under-stand the effects of type and structure of surfactants on the solubilization phenomena in vinyl acetate and vinyl acetate-butyl acrylate copolymer latexes. 

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