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An increase in temperature typically leads to a decrease in the interfacial tension of a water/oil interface. The addition of surfactants to the system can complicate the situation significantly, i.e., the interfacial tension can increase or decrease with an increasing temperature. For most concentrations of the two studied surfactants, the cationic tetradecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (TTAB) and the nonionic tridecyl dimethyl phosphine oxide (C13DMPO), the measured interfacial tension of the aqueous mixed surfactant solutions against hexane increases when the temperature decreases between 30 degrees C and 20 degrees C. However, with a further temperature decrease between 20 degrees C and 15 degrees C, the reverse effect has also been observed at some concentrations, i.e., a decrease of interfacial tension. Additionally, the corresponding dilational interfacial visco-elasticity shows some discrepant temperature effects, depending on the bulk concentration and oscillation frequency. The experiments have been performed with a capillary pressure tensiometer under the conditions of micro-gravity. The reason for the positive and negative interfacial tension and visco-elasticity gradients, respectively, within certain ranges of the temperature, concentration and mixing ratios, are discussed on the basis of all available parameters, such as the solubility and partitioning of the surfactants in the two liquid phases and the oscillation frequency.

Translated title of the contributionЭффект температуры на динамические свойства адсорбционных слоев ПАВ на границе вода/гексан в условиях низкой гравитации
Original languageEnglish
Article number27
Number of pages15
JournalColloids and Interfaces
Volume4
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2020

    Scopus subject areas

  • Chemistry(all)

    Research areas

  • interfacial dilational viscoelasticity, mixed surfactant adsorption layer, water, hexane interface, drop oscillations, capillary pressure tensiometry, effect of temperature, microgravity, NONMONOTONIC DEPENDENCE, ALKYLPHOSPHINE OXIDES, DILATIONAL RHEOLOGY, ADSORPTION-KINETICS, TENSION, MINIMUM, OIL, ELASTICITY, FILM

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