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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 289, Issue 2, Pages 551-559Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2005.03.078
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mixed micelles; sugar surfactants; cationic surfactants; fluorescence studies; synergism
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Steady state fluorescence measurements have been carried out for binary mixtures of a series of monomeric cationic (MC), zwitterionic (ZI), dimeric cationic (DC), and twin-tail cationic (TC) surfactants with sugar (beta-C(8)G and beta-C(12)G) over the whole mole fraction range using pyrene as fluorescence probe. The cmc values thus determined for all the binary mixtures have been further evaluated using the regular solution theory. The various micellar parameters, such as micelle mole fraction (X-1), regular solution interaction parameter (beta), micropolarity, and mean micelle aggregation number (N-agg), have been determined for all these series of mixtures. Variation in all these micellar parameters demonstrates that mixed micelles of these surfactants with beta-C(8)G are mostly synergistic in nature and the synergism increases with the increase in hydrophobicity of the cosurfactant in each case. The mixtures of beta-C(12)G with various cosurfactants do not show this behavior and instead of it, they show an increase in antagonism with the increase in hydrophobicity of cosurfactants. This discrepancy has been attributed to a large difference in hydrophobicity between beta-C(8)G and beta-C(12)G, and the chain folding of the latter is considered to be the reason for the antagonism. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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