2nd Edition

Structure-Performance Relationships in Surfactants

Edited By Kunio Esumi, Minoru Ueno Copyright 2003
    816 Pages
    by CRC Press

    In response to intensifying interest on surfactant research brought on by recent innovation, Structure-Performance Relationships in Surfactants, Second Edition examines novel developments in our understanding of the properties and performance of surfactants at air-liquid, liquid-liquid, and solid-liquid interfaces, highlighting seven new chapters and carefully updated material to reflect current trends. This edition presents new material on the adsorption of vesicle-forming surfactants at the air-water interface, fluorinated surfactants having two hydrophobic chains, surface-active properties of telomer-type surfactants having several hydrocarbon chains, and the association behavior of amphiphilic dendritic polymers, among many other topics.

    Theoretical studies of surfactants: theory of micelle formation - quantitative approach to predicting micellar properties from surfactant molecular structure, R. Nagarajan; Modelling association and adsorption of surfactants, Luuk K. Koopal. Physicochemical properties of surfactants at air-liquid interface and in solutions: adsorption of vesicle-forming surfactants at the air-water interface Makoto Aratono, Masumi Villeneuve, and Norihiro Ikeda; physicochemical properties of bile salts, Minoru Ueno and Hiroyuki Asano; characterization and functionalization of biosurfactants, Yutaka Ishigami; physicochemical properties of ring-structured surfactants, Yoshifumi Koide and Kunio Esumi; dimeric (Gemini) surfactants, Raoul Zana; fluorinated surfactants having two hydrophobic chains, Norio Yoshino; surface-active properties of telomer-type surfactants having several hydrocarbon chains, Tomokazu Yoshimura and Kunio Esumi; viscoelastic surfactant solutions, Heinz Hoffmann; microstructures of nonionic surfactant-water systems - from dilute micellar solution to liquid crystal phase, Tadashi Kato; association behaviour of amphiphilic dendritic polymers, Toyoko Imae; polymer/surfactant systems, Raoul Zana; highly concentrated cubic phase-based emulsions Md. Hemayet Uddin, Hironobu Kunieda, and Conxita Solans. Surfactant behaviours at solid-liquid interface: adsolubilization and related phenomena, Claude Treiner; adsorption of polymer and surfactant from their binary mixtures on an oxide surface, Kunio Esumi; dispersion of particles by surfactants, Kunio Esumi; arrangement of adsorbed surfactants on solid surfaces by AFM observation, Masatoshi Fujii.

    Biography

    Esumi, Kunio; Ueno, Minoru