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Fluoro- vs hydrocarbon surfactants: why do they differ in wetting performance?

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posted on 2014-12-17, 14:53 authored by Nina Kovalchuk, Anna TrybalaAnna Trybala, Victor Starov, O. Matar, Natalia A. Ivanova
Fluorosurfactants are the most effective compounds to lower the surface tension of aqueous solutions, but their wetting properties as related to low energy hydrocarbon solids are inferior to hydrocarbon trisiloxane surfactants, although the latter demonstrate higher surface tension in aqueous solutions. To explain this inconsistency available data on the adsorption of fluorosurfactants on liquid/vapour, solid/liquid and solid/vapour interfaces are discussed in comparison to those of hydrocarbon surfactants. The low free energy of adsorption of fluorosurfactants on hydrocarbon solid/water interface should be of a substantial importance for their wetting properties.

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This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK, grant EP/D077869/1, by ESA under grants FASES and PASTA and by the COST MP1106 project, by Marie Curie INT CoWet EU grant.

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  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

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  • Chemical Engineering

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ADVANCES IN COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

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210

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65 - 71 (7)

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KOVALCHUK, N. ... et al., 2014. Fluoro- vs hydrocarbon surfactants: why do they differ in wetting performance? Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 210, pp. 65 - 71.

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© The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.

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2014

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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Elsevier under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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0001-8686

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  • en

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AUSTRALIA

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    Surface energySurfactant solutionsAdsorptionSolid/liquid interfaceHydrophobicityLiophobicityChemical Engineering not elsewhere classified

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