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CURRENT OPINION IN COLLOID & INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages 196-204Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2012.02.004
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Surfactant; Oil; Alkane; Wetting; Surface freezing; Phase transitions; Interface; Line tension
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The behaviour of oils at aqueous interfaces is ubiquitous to many industrially and biologically relevant processes. In this review we consider modifications to the wetting properties of oils at the air/water, oil/water and solid/liquid interfaces in the presence of surfactants. First-order wetting transitions can be induced in a wide range of oils by varying the aqueous surfactant concentration, leading to the formation of mixed monolayers at the interface. In certain cases, these mixed monolayers display novel surface freezing behaviour, including the formation of unusual bilayer structures, which further modifies the properties of the interface. The effects of surfactant on line tension at the three-phase contact line and differences between the air/liquid and liquid/liquid interfaces are discussed. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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