Abstract. A Ginzburg-Landau theory is presented on surfactants in polar binary mixtures, which aggregate at an interface due to the amphiphilic interaction. They can be ionic surfactants coexisting with counterions. Including the solvation and image interactions and accounting for a finite volume fraction of the surfactant, we obtain their distributions and the electric potential around an inte...

A combination of electrical conductivity, dynamic viscosity, dynamic light scattering and small angle X-ray scattering methods was used to study the properties of the water + propylene glycol/mixed nonionic surfactants/ peppermint oil + ethanol U-type microemulsions which can be diluted with any amount of water. The surfactants were sucrose laurate and ethoxylated mono-di-glyceride. The mixing ...

Motivation Interest is growing in the development of material technologies that are based on renewable resources. The use of biomass as feedstock is of expanding industrial significance, particularly in the energy and commodities sectors. Relative to these arenas, monoand polysaccharides, very flexible and tunable chemical starting materials, are estimated to make up three-quarters of the world...

Aqueous chemistries have recently been shown to be useful for the deposition of hydrophobic films of nonionic and cationic silanes on hydrophilic substrates for the prevention of stiction in MEMS. The Monte Carlo method is used to simulate in two dimensions the self-assembly of silane films on a hydrophilic surface. We investigate the impact of charged group in cationic silane on the overall st...

Interactions of the anionic form of C.I. Mordant Blue 29 with cationic and nonionic surfactants have been studied by absorption spectroscopy. The dye interacts strongly with oppositely charged surfactants in the pre-micellar concentration range with an accompanying change in its spectral properties, while its interaction with the polyoxyethylene group of nonionic surfactants does not have such ...