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Mixing Behavior in Binary Anionic Gemini Surfactant–Perfluorinated Fatty Acid Langmuir Monolayers
journal contribution
posted on 2017-09-05, 00:00 authored by Jeveria Rehman, David Sowah-Kuma, Amy L. Stevens, Wei Bu, Matthew F. PaigeThe
miscibility and film structure of mixed Langmuir monolayer
films composed of an anionic gemini N,N,N′,N′-dialkyl-N,N′-diacetate ethylenediamine surfactant
(Ace(12)-2-Ace(12)) with perfluorotetradecanoic acid (C13F27COOH; PF) have been investigated using a variety
of thermodynamic and structural characterization methods. The two
film components were found to be miscible in monolayers at the air–water
interface over a range of compositions and at all but the lowest surface
pressures, with attractive interactions occurring between the two
components. While pure PF monolayers formed crystalline lattices with
hexagonal symmetry and with the surfactant tails oriented normal to
the underlying water subphase, the pure gemini surfactant formed amorphous
films with little tendency to orient at the subphase. In mixed films
with mole ratios of PF:Ace(12)-2-Ace(12) < 2.5, the miscibility
of the two components resulted in a nearly complete loss of crystallinity
of the PF, though films at higher mole fractions of PF showed some
residual crystallinity, albeit with lattice structures that were significantly
different from that of pure PF. Miscibility and film structure in
this mixed system are discussed in comparison with other mixed gemini
surfactant systems in the literature as well as binary mixtures of
phospholipids or monomeric fatty acids with PF.