Interfacial composition and characterization of a quaternary water-in-oil mixed surfactant (cationic of different alkyl chain lengths+polyoxyethylene type nonionic) microemulsions in absence and presence of inorganic salts

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 433, Issue , 2013, Pages 219-229

  Bardhan, Soumik ^a   Kundu, Kaushik ^b   Paul, Bidyut K ^b   Saha, Swapan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH BENGAL   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Chain length effect; Dynamic light scattering; Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; Inorganic salts; Mixed surfactant microemulsion; The Schulman's cosurfactant titration

Indexed keywords

CATIONIC SURFACTANTS; CHAIN LENGTH; DROPS; DYES; DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONIONIC SURFACTANTS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TITRATION;

ALKYLTRIMETHYLAMMONIUM BROMIDES; CHAIN LENGTH EFFECTS; CO-SURFACTANTS; INORGANIC SALTS; MIXED SURFACTANT; POLYOXYETHYLENE (20) CETYL ETHER; SINGLE-PHASE MICROEMULSION; WATER-IN-OIL MICROEMULSIONS;

MICROEMULSIONS;

ALKYLTRIMETHYLAMMONIUM BROMIDE; ALKYNE; CATION; HEPTANE; INORGANIC SALT; MYRISTIC ACID; NANOPARTICLE; OIL; POLYOXYETHYLENE; SURFACTANT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; INTERFACE PRESSURE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROEMULSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84879271769     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: 18734359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2013.04.049     Document Type: Article

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