Angelika Klaus, Gordon J T Tiddy, Reinhard Rachel, Anh Phong Trinh, Eva Maurer, Didier Touraud, Werner Kunz
We report on the effects of electrolytes spanning a range of anions (NaOc, NaSCN, NaNO(3), NaBr, NaCl, NaBu, NaOAc, Na(2)SO(4), Na(2)HPO(4), and Na(2)CO(3)) and cations (LiCl, NaCl, KCl, CsCl, and choline chloride) on the aqueous solubility of an extended surfactant. The surfactant is anionic with a long hydrophobic tail as well as a significant fraction of propylene oxide groups and ethylene oxide groups (C(12-14)-PO(16)-EO(2)-SO(4)Na, X-AES). In the absence of electrolytes, X-AES exhibits a cloud-point temperature that decreases with increasing surfactant concentration...
April 19, 2011: Langmuir: the ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids