Wiertel-Pochopien, Agata published the artcileSynergistic Effect of Binary Surfactant Mixtures in Two-Phase and Three-Phase Systems, Application In Synthesis of 111-87-5, the main research area is synergistic effect binary surfactant mixture phase.
Cationic alkyltrimethylammonium bromides (CnTAB, with n = 8, 12, 16, 18) and their mixtures with n-octanol as a nonionic surfactant were chosen as a model system to study the synergistic effect on foamability (two-phase system) and floatability (three-phase system) of quartz in the presence of binary mixtures of ionic/nonionic surfactants. The foam height of one-component solutions and binary mixtures and floatability of quartz particles were characterized as a function of the surfactant concentration and the number of carbons (n) in the alkyl chain of CnTAB. The exptl. results of foamability and floatability measurements in one-component and mixed solutions revealed the synergistic effect, causing a significant enhancement in the foam height and recovery of quartz. In the presence of n-octanol, the height of foam increased remarkably for all CnTAB solutions studied, and this effect, whose magnitude depended on the CnTAB hydrophobic tail length, could not be justified by a simple increase in total surfactant concentration A similar picture was obtained in the case of flotation response. The mechanism of synergistic effect observed in mixed CnTAB/n-octanol solutions was proposed. The discussion was supported by mol. dynamics simulations, and the probable mechanism responsible for synergism was discussed. In addition, an anal. allowing accurate determination of the concentration regimes, where the synergistic effect can be expected, was given. It was shown that for the two-phase system, the n-octanol mol. preadsorption at the liquid/gas interface causes an increase in CnTAB adsorption coverage over the level expected from its equilibrium value in the one-component solution In the case of the three-phase system, the synergistic effect was related to the ionic surfactants serving as an anchor layer for n-octanol, which, in water/n-octanol solution (one-component system), do not adsorb on the surface of quartz.
Journal of Physical Chemistry B published new progress about Flotation. 111-87-5 belongs to class alcohols-buliding-blocks, name is n-Octanol, and the molecular formula is C8H18O, Application In Synthesis of 111-87-5.
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