Investigation of alumina / ( + ) - catechin system properties . Part II : - potential and surface free energy changes of alumina
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The effects of (+ )-catechin adsorption to the alumina surface were studied by -potential and surface free energy determination. The presence of catechin causes essential changes in the alumina -potential, which at the concentration slightly higher than 10 M reverses from the positive into negative one. At constant concentration of catechin (10 M), the effect on -potential of alumina as a function of pH appears in a drastic shift of the isoelectric point, from pH 8.4 to 4.6, and the equilibrium is established practically within 2 h. This is probably due to relatively low pKa=4.6 for catechin 3 -OH group deprotonation. At high alkaline environment (pH 10), even in the presence of catechin in the solution, the hydroxyl OH ions play principal role in the surface charge formation for the alumina. At such pH catechin molecule is double negatively charged and hence its adsorption on highly negatively charged alumina surface is rather restricted. Nevertheless, various dimeric forms of catechin, which are formed at the alkaline pH, probably adsorb on the alumina surface. This appears in small increase in apolar surface free energy component at natural and alkaline pH. On the other hand, at acidic pH 3 small increase of the electron acceptor interaction is observed. This may result from increased number of hydroxyl groups on the alumina surface originating from the adsorbed molecules of catechin, which are mostly undissociated at this pH. The interactions of catechin with alumina surface seems to be also of some specific nature, because neither changes in the ultraviolet–visible (UV–vis) absorbance (Part I) nor in the -potentials had occurred in the silica suspensions in which also catechin was present. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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