β-Casein and Symmetrical Triblock Copolymer (PEO−PPO−PEO and PPO−PEO−PPO) Surface Properties at the Air−Water Interface
- 6 January 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Langmuir
- Vol. 20 (3), 756-763
- https://doi.org/10.1021/la030294c
Abstract
A comparison of beta-casein and symmetrical triblock copolymer (PEO-PPO-PEO and PPO-PEO-PPO) adsorption layer properties at the air-water interface has been carried out by bubble tensiometry and ellipsometry. It has been verified that the equation of state parameters (pi approximately gamma(y)) obtained from surface pressure (pi) and ellipticity in Brewster conditions (rhoB), which is proportional to the surface concentration (gamma) data, are the same as those obtained from dilational modulus epsilon and pi data. These two consistent approaches give further support to the theoretical model of block copolymers which has been previously developed for protein adsorption at fluid interfaces. It is shown that the interfacial behavior of the copolymer adsorption layer changes strongly as a function of the length of the hydrophilic and hydrophobic block sequences. The theoretical model may be used for the interpretation of the adsorption properties of the synthetic copolymers only when the size of the blocks is large enough. In the case of block copolymers, the coil is in a self-avoiding walk conformation (y = 3) whatever the temperature, while in the case of beta-casein, the polypeptide chain is partly collapsed at room temperature due to thermolabile noncovalent bonds. At the end of the first semidilute regime, there is clear evidence for a crossover toward a second semidilute regime for synthetic copolymers as well as for beta-casein but it is presently only partially characterized.Keywords
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