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This research reports on the adsorption and precipitation of mixtures of anionic and cationic surfactants having single and twin head groups. The surfactant mixtures investigated were: (i) a single-head anionic surfactant, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), in a mixture with the twin-head cationic surfactant pentamethyl-octadecyl-1,3-propane diammonium dichloride (PODD)—adsorption was studied on negatively charged silica; and (ii) a twin-head anionic surfactant, sodium hexadecyl-diphenyloxide disulfonate (SHDPDS), and the single-head cationic surfactant dodecylpyridinium chloride (DPCI)—adsorption was studied on positively charged alumina. Whereas the mixed surfactant system of SHDPDS/DPCI showed adsorption on alumina that was comparable to the of SHDPDS alone, the mixed surfactant system of SDS/PODD showed increased adsorption on silica as compared with PODD alone. The adsorption of the SDS/PODD mixture increased as the anionic and cationic system approached an equimolar ratio. Precipitation diagrams for mixtures of single- and twin-head surfactant systems showed smaller precipitation areas than for single-head-only surfactant mixtures. Thus, the combination of single- and double-head surfactants helps reduce the precipitation region and can increase the adsorption levels, although the magnitude of the effect is a function of the specific surfactants used.
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Abbreviations
- CMC:
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critical micelle concentration
- DPCl:
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dodecylpyridinium chloride
- IASR:
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Institute for Applied Surfactant Research
- PODD:
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pentamethyl-octadecyl-1,3-propane diammonium dichloride
- SDHS:
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sodium dihexyl sulfosuccinate
- SHDPDS:
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sodium hexadecyl-diphenyloxide disulfonate
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Fuangswasdi, A., Charoensaeng, A., Sabatini, D.A. et al. Mixtures of anionic and cationic surfactants with single and twin head groups: Adsorption and precipitation studies. J Surfact Deterg 9, 21–28 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11743-006-0370-2
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