Effect of Nanoparticles on the Interfacial Properties of Liquid/Liquid and Liquid/Air Surface Layers
- 14 September 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
- Vol. 110 (39), 19543-19551
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jp0636468
Abstract
An investigation is reported on the interfacial properties of nanometric colloidal silica dispersions in the presence of a cationic surfactant. These properties are the result of different phenomena such as the particle attachment at the interface and the surfactant adsorption at the liquid and at the particle interfaces. Since the latter strongly influences the hydrophobicity/lipophilicity of the particle, i.e., the particle affinity for the fluid interfacial environment, all those phenomena are closely correlated. The equilibrium and dynamic interfacial tensions of the liquid/air and liquid/oil interfaces have been measured as a function of the surfactant and particle concentration. The interfacial rheology of the same systems has been also investigated by measuring the dilational viscoelasticity as a function of the area perturbation frequency. These results are then crossed with the values of the surfactant adsorption on the silica particles, indirectly estimated through experiments based on the centrifugation of the dispersions. In this way it has been possible to point out the mechanisms determining the observed kinetic and equilibrium features. In particular, an important role in the mixed particle−surfactant layer reorganization is played by the Brownian transport of particles from the bulk to the interface and by the surfactant redistribution between the particle and fluid interface.Keywords
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