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COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS
Volume 384, Issue 1-3, Pages 262-267Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2011.03.063
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Amphipathic polyelectrolytes; Surface tension; Adsorption free energy
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- Fondecyt [1090092]
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Poly (N,N-dimethyl-N,N-diallyl ammonium) chloride, a highly hydrophilic polyelectrolyte, was hydrophobically modified and the surface properties of the resulting amphipathic polyelectrolytes were determined. The surface activity increases with the polyelectrolyte side chain length despite the ability of this type of polyelectrolyte to form hydrophobic micro domains in solution. The standard free energy of the adsorption process, Delta G degrees(ads), were a linear function of the number of carbon atoms in the lateral chain as well as their transfer and interfacial contributions to the adsorption process with -1.73 kJ mol(-1) of methylene group to Delta G degrees(ads). From the dependence of the surface tension with the temperature the Delta S degrees(ads) was determined. The latter parameter was always positive regardless the polyelectrolyte side chain length, thus the main driving force to Delta G degrees(ads) arises from the large positive Delta S degrees(ads) values. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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