1st Edition

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

Edited By Raoul Zana, Jiding Xia Copyright 2004

    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, inc

    Synthesis of gemini (dimeric) and related surfactants, Isao Ikeda; models of gemini surfactants, H. Diamant and D. Andelman; adsorption and surface tension behaviour of gemini surfactants at air/water, oil/water and solid/water interfaces, E. Franses, M.R. Infante, L. Perez, A. Pinazo and A. Prosser; state of gemini surfactants in solution at concentrations below the CMC, Raoul Zana; gemini (dimeric) surfactants in water - solubility, CMC and thermodynamics of micellization and interaction with water soluble polymers, Raoul Zana; properties of micelles and of micellar solutions of gemini (dimeric) surfactants, Raoul Zana; rheology of solutions of gemini surfactants M. In; phase behaviour of gemini surfactants, Raoul Zana and M. In; mixed micellization between dimeric (gemini) surfactants and conventional surfactants, Raoul Zana and Jiding Xia; special gemini surfactants - Nonionic, Zwitterionic, fluorinated and amino-acid based, T. Davey; structure-performance relationships in gemini surfactants, Yun-Peng Zhu; applications of gemini surfactants, Jiding Xia and Raoul Zana.

    Biography

    Raoul Zana, Jiding Xia