Investigating the effectiveness of PEO/PPO based copolymers as dispersing agents for graphitic carbon black aqueous dispersions

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 404, Issue , 2012, Pages 25-35

  Yasin, S ^a   Luckham, P F ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AFM; Conductivity; Graphitic carbon dispersions; Rheology; Surfactant adsorption

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON BLACK; CARBON NANOTUBES; COPOLYMERS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; POLYETHYLENES; POLYPROPYLENE OXIDES; POLYPROPYLENES; RHEOLOGY; SPHERES; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; THERMOPLASTICS;

ADSORBED LAYERS; ADSORPTION AMOUNTS; AFM; ANCHOR GROUPS; ANCHORING GROUPS; AQUEOUS DISPERSIONS; AQUEOUS MEDIUM; AROMATIC RINGS; CARBON BLACK DISPERSIONS; CROSS-OVER; DISPERSABILITY; DISPERSANTS; DISPERSING AGENT; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ETHYLENE OXIDES; FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; GRAPHITIC CARBONS; HARD SPHERES; HIGH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; KRIEGER-DOUGHERTY EQUATION; NONIONIC; OSCILLATORY MEASUREMENTS; PROPYLENE OXIDE; REPULSIVE INTERACTIONS; SURFACTANT ADSORPTION; VISCOSITY VALUE;

DISPERSIONS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; DISPERSANT; ETHYLENE OXIDE; GRAPHITIC CARBON BLACK; MACROGOL; POLYETHYLENE OXIDE POLYPROPYLENE OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADSORPTION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONDUCTANCE; DISPERSION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FLOW KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84861230355     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: 18734359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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