Physico-Chemical Analyses on Polysaccharide- Surfactant Aggregates Hydrodynamic Behaviour

Characterizing the behavior of polysaccharide-surfactant aggregates in aqueous systems

Abstract

A mixture of surface-active substances is what is meant by the term surfactant. Organicsubstances with amphiphilic properties often make up the surfactants. The terms surfactant andamphiphile are sometimes used interchangeably. The expression alludes to the fact that allsurfactant molecules contain two components, one of which is soluble in the fluid and the other ofwhich is insoluble in the fluid (the lyophobic part). The hydrophilic and hydrophobic portions areusually mentioned when the fluid is water. Surface tension, conductance, and spectrophotometrictechniques were used to examine the interfacial adsorption and micellization of SDS in different chainlengths of aqueous liquid-vapor PEG. Both liquid and solid PEGs had comparable results, howeverthere were slight variances. Additional precellizationpreaggregation processes were seen in the case ofsolid PEGs.