THE ABSENCE OF CONVENTIONAL POLYMER-SURFACTANT INTERACTION BETWEEN SODIUM MONODECYL PHOSPHATE AND POLY(ETHYLENE OXIDE) - CONDUCTIVITY AND KINETIC EVIDENCE
Cf. Lima et al., THE ABSENCE OF CONVENTIONAL POLYMER-SURFACTANT INTERACTION BETWEEN SODIUM MONODECYL PHOSPHATE AND POLY(ETHYLENE OXIDE) - CONDUCTIVITY AND KINETIC EVIDENCE, Journal of colloid and interface science, 187(2), 1997, pp. 396-400
Mixtures of sodium monodecyl phosphate (NaDeP) and poly(ethylene oxide
) (PEG) have been investigated conductimetrically in 0.05 M succinate
buffer, pH 5.20. The conductivity vs NaDeP concentration profiles do n
ot show the classical behavior of PEO-sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) mix
tures. In the presence of different concentrations of PEG, the profile
s exhibit only one discontinued point, whose SDS concentration values
are similar to the NaDeP critical aggregation concentration. It was ob
served also that this conductivity breakpoint is not sensitive to vari
ation in the polymer concentration and that it is independent of polym
er molecular weight. However, the conductivity profiles of mixtures of
NaDeP and SDS demonstrate behavior similar to that of SDS alone. For
these mixtures, the evidence of binding, absent in the presence of NaD
eP alone, is interpreted by assuming that it is solely driven by the S
DS. (C) 1997 Academic Press.