Manipulating surface adsorption of SLES surfactants using temperature

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Although surfactant detergency is well understood above 30 C, actions of surfactants below 30 C are not well established. In the era of energy saving and environment caring, we must understand how to optimise detergency in what are increasingly hostile environments. Existing surfactant mixing theories such as regular solution theory are not validated at low temperatures, and other factors such as being closer to the solubility limit of the surfactants, and perhaps proximate to phase boundaries also need to be taken into account. It is hence vital that industry is supported with both data and a thermodynamic description of the behaviour of detergent components at ambient and below ambient temperatures. This work proposes to study SLES adsorption against T, which will help establish how model surfactant mixtures behave below ambient T.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.58452132
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/58452132
Provenance
Creator Dr Ian Tucker; Miss Daniela Ciumac; Professor Jian Lu; Dr Mario Campana; Dr Zongyi Li; Mr Zhiming Lu; Dr John Webster; Mr Charles Smith; Dr Arwel Hughes
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-03-24T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-04-17T12:16:47Z