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The interaction of ester functionalized amide gemini surfactants with polymers

  • Yue Lei , Yue Liu , Yuheng Li , Xiaohao Lu , Haiyan Gao

    Haiyan Gao is an associate professor, she received a doctorate in science from the Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003. Research direction is physical chemistry, synthesis and application of chemicals.

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    and Hujun Xu

    Hujun Xu is a professor, he received his Ph.D. degree in 2005 from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, P.R. China. He has been involved in surfactants and detergents for over 30 years. He has published over 100 papers in the field of surfactants and detergents.

Published/Copyright: October 2, 2023
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Abstract

In this study the interaction between the esterified amide gemini surfactant C12-(BAE)-C12, where BAE stands for the bis(acetoxy)ethane linking group, and the non-ionic polymer polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) was investigated by the surface tension method. It was found that there was no apparent interaction between them. The interaction between C12-(BAE)-C12 and sodium polyelectrolyte polyacrylate (NaPAA) was investigated by surface tension, micropolarity and turbidity measurements. The results showed that there was a strong interaction between them. The aggregates were formed by electrostatic attraction between the molecules of C12-(BAE)-C12 and NaPAA in the bulk. This process led to the appearance of two inflection points, the critical aggregation concentration (cac) and the critical micelle concentration (CMC), on the surface tension and micropolarity curves. In addition, the inorganic salt NaBr had two opposite effects, promoting or inhibiting the interaction between C12-(BAE)-C12 and NaPAA. This was related to the concentration of NaBr itself.


Corresponding author: Haiyan Gao, School of Chemical & Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, P.R. China, E-mail:

About the authors

Haiyan Gao

Haiyan Gao is an associate professor, she received a doctorate in science from the Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003. Research direction is physical chemistry, synthesis and application of chemicals.

Hujun Xu

Hujun Xu is a professor, he received his Ph.D. degree in 2005 from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, P.R. China. He has been involved in surfactants and detergents for over 30 years. He has published over 100 papers in the field of surfactants and detergents.

  1. Research ethics: Not applicable.

  2. Author contributions: Yue Lei: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Investigation, Formal Analysis, Writing- Original draft preparation; Yue Liu: Data Curation, Writing - Original Draft; Yuheng Li: Visualization, Investigation; Xiaohao Lu: Software, Validation; Haiyan Gao∗: Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing - Review & Editing; Hujun Xu: Visualization, Resources, Supervision.

  3. Competing interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest.

  4. Research funding: None declared.

  5. Data availability: Paper data are available upon request.

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Received: 2023-03-21
Accepted: 2023-06-26
Published Online: 2023-10-02
Published in Print: 2023-11-27

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