Journal
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS
Volume 142, Issue 1-3, Pages 136-142Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2008.06.001
Keywords
gemini surfactants; catanionic mixtures; non-ideal; conductivity
Funding
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (F.C.T.), Portugal [SFRH/BPD/6979/2001]
- FEDER Funds [POCTI/QUI/44296/2002]
- C.I.Q. (U.P.)-linha 5
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BPD/6979/2001] Funding Source: FCT
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Mixtures of cationic and anionic surfactants (catanionic mixtures) are often highly non-ideal, exhibiting strong synergism in their interfacial properties, manifested for instance in significant reduction of the mixture critical micelle concentration (cmc) and enhanced adsorption onto surfaces. The magnitude of such effects is of fundamental interest and has important application-related uses (e.g. in detergent formulation). In this work, the micellization process of mixtures of cationic gemini surfactants of the alkanediyl-alpha,omega-bis (alkyl dimethylammonium bromide) type, denoted by 12-n-12 (where it is the spacer length), with several common anionic surfactants has been investigated by electric conductivity. For the purpose of comparison. cationic-cationic mixtures, where dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide is the second cationic surfactant, have also been investigated. The cationic/anionic mixtures show relatively significant deviations from ideal behavior, depending on the structure of the gemini surfactant and the anionic surfactant. The interaction parameter beta(12), within Rubingh's non-ideal model for mixed micelles, has been calculated for each mixture, as well as the mixed micelle composition as a function of mixture composition. The observed synergism in the different mixtures is interpreted in terms of the molecular structure of the surfactants and corresponding head-head and chain-chain interactions. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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