Adsorption Kinetics of Short-Chain Alcohols at the Water/Air Interface: Diffusion-Controlled Adsorption under the Conditions of a Nonequilibrium Surface Layer

Langmuir approach in the study of interface mass transfer

“…If the molecule does not react with the liquid phase, the mass transport of adsorbed molecules may be described by the Langmuir approach, which assumes a local equilibrium adsorption. Note that Langmuir isotherm satisfactory describes the experimental data of adsorption kinetics of both small and large organics at the water-air interface [12][13][14][15]. Let us consider the adsorbed molecules as an average monolayer, which is in equilibrium between gas phase and liquid phase.…”

Dynamic tensiometry studies on interactions of novel therapeutic inhalable powders with model pulmonary surfactant at the air–water interface

“…increase of surface activity), for all powders except MAC, may be caused by similar effect as were reported for fructose, glucose and saccharose [58,59]. Mentioned sugars promotes the structuring of water molecules which significantly affects the adsorption activity of lowmolecular weight surfactants.…”

Research of oxygen mass transfer through the air–water surface at low bulk concentrations of surfactants

“…The short hydrocarbon chain alcohols are fast adsorbed and non-micellar surfactants [27,28]. In order to diminish the complications caused be adsorption kinetics, n-butanol (1-butanol), sec-butanol (2-butanol), isobutanol (2-methyl-propanol), and tert-butanol (2-methyl-2-propanol) were used as test surfactants in the current study.…”