Influence of Headgroup on the Aggregation and Interactional Behavior of Twin-Tailed Cationic Surfactants with Pluronics

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• 作者：Rajwinder Kaur ; Sugam Kumar ; Vinod K. Aswal ; Rakesh Kumar Mahajan
• 刊名：Langmuir
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：September 24, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：29
• 期：38
• 页码：11821-11833
• 全文大小：585K
• 年卷期：v.29,no.38(September 24, 2013)
• ISSN：1520-5827

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The surface tension measurements have been employed to characterize the micellar and interfacial behavior of pure and mixed systems of twin-tailed cationic surfactants: dimethylene bis(decyldimethylammonium bromide) (10鈥?鈥?0), didecydimethylammonium bromide (DDAB), and 1,3-didecyl-2-methylimidazolium chloride (DDIC) with pluronics P84 and F108 in the aqueous solution. The interactions of each surfactant with both pluronics are found to be nonideal and synergistic except for the mixed system of 10鈥?鈥?0 + F108, for which interactions are antagonistic and every interaction has been studied on the basis of headgroup disparity. Dynamic light scattering (DLS), zeta (味) potential, and small angle neutron scattering (SANS) measurements have been used to determine the influence of the mixing ratio on the morphology of the various mixed aggregates that are formed. Pure DDAB is found to form unilamellar vesicles whereas pure 10鈥?鈥?0 and DDIC form prolate ellipsoidal micelles. The unilamellar vesicles of DDAB are destructed to yield spherical mixed micelles on addition of pluronics via expansion or contraction of vesicles. However, the pure pluronics and their mixed systems with 10鈥?鈥?0 and DDIC form charged spherical micelles, and charge is confirmed by thenfractional charge and 味 values. The 味 values of pure surfactants are found to decrease on addition of pluronics, indicating a decrease in surface charge on inclusion of pluronics.