A. Petkova et C. Dushkin, METHOD OF THE GREEN-FUNCTIONS IN THE KINETICS OF ADSORPTION FROM MICELLAR SURFACTANT SOLUTIONS, Colloid and polymer science, 274(10), 1996, pp. 952-958
The kinetics of adsorption from micellar surfactant solutions is consi
dered theoretically from a uniform point of view. Three boundary value
problems for the adsorption on flat and on spherical interface are so
lved analytically by means of the method of the Green functions. In th
is way the bulk concentration and the adsorption of surfactant monomer
s are expressed as functions of time. The contribution of the micelles
(surfactant aggregates) to the diffusion of the monomers is accounted
for as pseudo-first order reaction. The adsorption from surfactant so
lutions without micelles turns out to be the particular case of the pr
oblems considered here. Being general in form, the derived equations c
an be applied also to other practical problems in heterogeneous chemic
al kinetics, adsorption of gases, heat transfer, etc.