Effect of additives on the clouding behavior of sodium dodecyl sulfate + tetra-<Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis>-butylammonium bromide system |
| |
Authors: | Sanjeev?Kumar Damyanti?Sharma Email author" target="_blank">Kabir-ud-DinEmail author |
| |
Affiliation: | (1) Department of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, 202 002 Aligarh, India |
| |
Abstract: | The effect of additives on the cloud point (CP) of nonionic surfactants has been studied for more than six decades. Ionic
surfactants, however, generally do not show clouding. Recently, CP in ionic surfactant solutions have been reported in the
presence of a few quaternary bromides. In this study, we report the effect of various additives (e.g., ureas, sugars, salts,
organic solvents, acids) on the CP of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) + tetra-n-butylammonium bromide (Bu4NBr) systems. An increase in CP of the system with urea concentration is explained by its water structure-breaking ability.
An opposite effect of thiourea may be due to the direct interaction of the compound with the SDS-Bu4NBr mixed micelle. The CP-decreasing effect of sugars is due to their water structure-making ability. All the salts decrease
the CP, owing to increased counterion binding. The organic solvents used here raise the CP, whereas the other organic additives
decrease the CP. The overall criteria of CP variation seemingly depend upon the solubilities of the additive in the micellar
interfacial region and the background solvent. |
| |
Keywords: | Cloud point ionic surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate tetra-n-butylammonium bromide |
本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录! |
|