Low-density polyethylene is the most applied packaging plastic. The recycling rate of LDPE low, especially for material from post-consumer source. quality recyclates influenced by different contaminations, either intentionally or non-intentionally. Printing ink one substances that regarded as having a negative influence on recyclates. This study used new type nonionic surfactant oxirane, methyl...

Highly ordered mesoporous organic-inorganic hybrid silica thin films with covalently bonded, positively chargeable -NH2 terminal groups were synthesized by evaporation induced self-assembly of tetraethoxysilane, 3-aminopropyl-triethoxysilane, and a nonionic surfactant under acid conditions and characterized using TEM, GISAXS, FTIR, SAW-based N2 sorption, and TGA.

High thermal and hydro-thermal stable MCM-48 was synthesized by a mixed nonionic–cationic surfactant templating pathway. The sample retains its cubic structure when at 1000 8C for 2 h and when calcined in air with 100% water vapor at 600 8C for 2 h. # 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

The ability of nonionic surfactants to modulate the rheological characteristics of comblike hydrophobically modified associative polymer solutions containing cyclodextrin (CD) is examined. Addition of either alpha- or beta-CD to these polymers results in a marked decrease in solution viscosity and viscoelastic properties because of the encapsulation of the polymer hydrophobes by CD. Nonionic su...

Nonionic surfactants are amphilic chemicals that enhance desorption and bioavailability by increasing solubility and dispersion of poorly soluble hydrocarbons and oils. This study was conducted to determine the toxicity of commercial nonionic surfactants by using the Microtox Acute Toxicity test which is a rapid, simple test for toxicity. The test uses the luminescent bacterium V. fischeri as t...

The association of many classes of surface-active molecules into micellar aggregates is a well-known phenomenon. Micelles are in dynamic equilibrium, constantly disintegrating and reforming. This relaxation process is characterized by the slow micellar relaxation time constant, tau(2), which is directly related to the micellar stability. Theories of the kinetics of micelle formation and disinte...

The interaction has been studied in aqueous solutions between a negatively charged conjugated polyelectrolyte poly{1,4-phenylene-[9,9-bis(4-phenoxybutylsulfonate)]fluorene-2,7-diyl} copolymer (PBS-PFP) and several cationic tetraalkylammonium surfactants with different structures (alkyl chain length, counterion, or double alkyl chain), with tetramethylammonium cations and with the anionic surfac...

The addition of Tween 80 and sucrose monopalmitate, nonionic surfactants, to fungal cultures resulted in marked increases in yields of the enzymes cellulase, amylase, sucrase, beta-1 --> 3 glucanase, xylanase, purine nucleosidase, and benzoyl esterase. The action appears to be an effect of the surfactant on cell permeability.

Nanoparticles of the [Fe(NH(2)trz)(3)](tosylate)(2) spin crossover complex of 3-4 nm size were synthesized and dispersed in a nonionic surfactant. This colloidal system exhibits thermal spin crossover phenomena associated with a virtually first order transition. By thermal treatment the colloidal suspension can be transformed into a fibrous structure forming a gel.

The binding equilibrium of N-alkylpyridinium ions to nonionic surfactant micelles was investigated through the changes in the electrophoretic mobility of the alkylpyridinium ions in capillary zone electrophoresis. The binding constants thus determined increased with increasing molecular volume of the alkylpyridinium ions. However, the binding constants are small compared with the ones for the a...