Gemini Surfactants: Synthesis, Interfacial and Solution-Phase Behavior, and Applications

✍ Scribed by Raoul Zana, Jiding Xia

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 345
• Series: Surfactant Science
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Generating much interest in both academic and scientific circles, Gemini Surfactants gathers the most up-to-date research in gemini surfactantproduction and demonstrates how their propertiesand performance can revolutionize the current industrial application of these surfactants. It surveys the state of special gemini surfactants, including nonionic, zwitterionic, fluorinated, and amino-acid-based surfactants.

Gemini Surfactants considers the synthesis, phase behavior, and rheology of gemini and related surfactants and clarifies the adsorption and surface tension behavior of gemini surfactants at air–water, oil–water, and solid–water interfaces.  The book also details the physicochemical properties and microstructure of aqueous micellar solutions of gemini surfactants and describes mixed micellization between gemini surfactants and conventional surfactants.

✦ Table of Contents

Book cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Preface......Page 13
Contents......Page 15
1. Introduction......Page 18
2. Synthesis of Gemini (Dimeric) and Related Surfactants......Page 26
3. Models of Gemini Surfactants......Page 54
4. Adsorption and Surface Tension Behavior of Gemini Surfactants at Air-Water, Oil-......Page 81
5. State of Gemini Surfactants in Solution at Concentrations Below the cmc......Page 109
6. Gemini (Dimeric) Surfactants in Water Gemini (Dimeric) Surfactants in Water......Page 125
7. Properties of Micelles and of Micellar Solutions of Gemini (Dimeric) Surfactants......Page 156
8. Rheology of Solutions of Gemini Surfactants......Page 200
9. Phase Behavior of Gemini Surfactants......Page 227
10. Mixed Micellization Between Dimeric (Gemini) Surfactants and Conventional Surfactants......Page 248
11. Special Gemini Surfactants: Nonionic, Zwitterionic, Fluorinated, and Amino Acid Based......Page 268
12. Structure-Performance Relationships in Gemini Surfactants......Page 294
13. Applications of Gemini Surfactants......Page 313
Index......Page 333