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Fluoro- vs hydrocarbon surfactants: why do they differ in wetting performance?
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posted on 2014-12-17, 14:53 authored by Nina Kovalchuk, Anna TrybalaAnna Trybala, Victor Starov, O. Matar, Natalia A. IvanovaFluorosurfactants are the most effective compounds to lower the surface tension of aqueous solutions, but their wetting properties as related to low energy hydrocarbon solids are inferior to hydrocarbon trisiloxane surfactants, although the latter demonstrate higher surface tension in aqueous solutions. To explain this inconsistency available data on the adsorption of fluorosurfactants on liquid/vapour, solid/liquid and solid/vapour interfaces are discussed in comparison to those of hydrocarbon surfactants. The low free energy of adsorption of fluorosurfactants on hydrocarbon solid/water interface should be of a substantial importance for their wetting properties.
Funding
This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK, grant EP/D077869/1, by ESA under grants FASES and PASTA and by the COST MP1106 project, by Marie Curie INT CoWet EU grant.
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- Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering
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ADVANCES IN COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCEVolume
210Pages
65 - 71 (7)Citation
KOVALCHUK, N. ... et al., 2014. Fluoro- vs hydrocarbon surfactants: why do they differ in wetting performance? Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 210, pp. 65 - 71.Publisher
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