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Behavior of wormlike micellar solutions formed without any additives from semi-fluorinated quaternary ammonium salts
Padoan, Gennifer,De Givenchy, Elisabeth Taffin,Zaggia, Alessandro,Amigoni, Sonia,Darmanin, Thierry,Conte, Lino,Guittard, Frederic
, p. 8992 - 8999 (2013)
In the present work a series of fluorinated quaternary ammonium salts were synthesized in two steps. The physical properties of the obtained surfactants were characterized by DLS, zeta potential, viscosity, and Cryo-SEM. The surfactants with a long fluorinated chain form long and highly flexible aggregates that lead to highly viscous solutions and the formation of an entangled network made of flexible worm-like micelles. The viscoelastic properties of the surfactants that form hydrogels without any additives were characterized along with zeta potential and Cryo-SEM observations. They present a maximum viscosity as a function of worm-like micelles formation. The increase of the fluorinated and hydrocarbon chain lengths contributes to the enhancement of this viscoelastic behavior.
Characterization of air/water interface adsorption of a series of partially fluorinated/hydrogenated quaternary ammonium salts
Padoan, Gennifer,Darmanin, Thierry,Zaggia, Alessandro,Amigoni, Sonia,Conte, Lino,Guittard, Frédéric
, p. 241 - 248 (2015)
The adsorption at air/water interface of a series of partially fluorinated/hydrogenated quaternary ammonium salts was characterized by the determination of static and dynamic surface tension, critical micelle concentration, surface excess, area per molecule and Krafft temperature. In particular, the variation of these parameters was studied as a function of fluorinated and hydrogenated chain length. Modification of fluorinated and hydrogenated moieties allows to finely tune all the aforementioned physical surface properties: increasing the number of fluorinated carbon atoms boosts both effectiveness and efficiency of surfactant in reducing surface tension, kinetics of migration to interface are favored fastening reaching of equilibrium conditions, critical micelle concentration is reduced and surface excess is increased. Conversely increasing the length of the hydrogenated moiety reduces both effectiveness and efficiency of surfactant, migration to interface is slackened, c.m.c. is increased, and surface excess is depresses. Area per molecule and Krafft temperature appear to be affected mainly by the total number of carbon atoms introduced in the molecules whatever the nature of the substituent (fluorine or hydrogen).
