Polymeric Surfactants: Synthesis, Properties, and Links to Applications

Raffa, Patrizio; Wever, D. A. Z.; Picchioni, Francesco; Broekhuis, Antonius

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“…Amphiphilic block copolymers are of great industrial importance due to their adjustable rheological behavior and formation of self-assembled structures in a selective solvent like water [1,2]. The possibility exists to introduce responsive behavior to parameters such as pH [3][4][5], temperature [6,7] or UV irradiation [2].…”

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“…The possibility exists to introduce responsive behavior to parameters such as pH [3][4][5], temperature [6,7] or UV irradiation [2]. The versatility in properties has resulted in an increased attention in the last decades for application in several fields including smart materials [6,7], micro emulsion stabilization [8] and polymerization [9,10], coatings [11], drug delivery [12][13][14] and enhanced oil recovery [2,3,15,16].…”

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“…Subsequently, they can be considered as the macromolecular counterparts of small-molecule surfactants and are therefore also called polymeric surfactants [2,17]. Amphiphilic block copolymers can be synthesized with a large variety of monomers [2] and architectures [18,19], which determine their aggregation behavior in water. In the case of a short hydrophobic and a long polyelectrolyte block the copolymers form star-like polyelectrolyte micelles [20].…”

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“…Although many papers document the synthesis and self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers, to the authors best knowledge, only relatively little work has been carried out on the systematic study of the rheology, gel structure and surface properties of such polymers [2]. The field of polymeric surfactants is relatively new and a full understanding of the relation between structure and property is still missing.…”

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Well-defined amphiphilic triblock poly(sodium methacrylate)-polystyrene-poly(sodium methacrylate) (PMAA-b-PS-b-PMAA) copolymers characterized by a different length of either the hydrophilic or the hydrophobic block have been synthesized by ATRP. In solution the micelle-like aggregates consist of a collapsed PS core surrounded by stretched charged PMAA chains. The micelles are kinetically 'frozen' and as a consequence the triblock copolymers do not show a significant surface activity. The hydrophilic block length has a major influence on the rheology, the shortest PMAA blocks yielding the strongest gels (at the same total weight concentration). The hydrophobic block length has only a minor influence until a certain threshold, below which the hydrophobic interactions are too weak resulting in weak gels. A mathematical model is used to describe the micelle radius and the results were in good agreement with the experimentally found radius in transmission electron microscopy. The influences of the ionic strength, pH and temperature on the rheology has also been investigated, showing the potential of these polymers as smart hydrogels. The change in conformation of the hydrophilic corona from the collapsed state to the stretched state by changing the pH was quantified with zeta-potential measurements. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first systematic investigation of this kind of triblock copolymers in terms of their rheological behavior in water.

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“…Adsorption and wettability depends on oil composition, structure of surfactants, blending mechanism and surface properties of rock. The mineral composition of rock plays a major role in adsorption and wettability alterations, which acts at solid liquid interface [4].…”

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Improving Recovery Through Surfactant Desorption on An Oil Wet Limestone Reservoir

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This article provides an overview of surfactants. Various types of surfactants, their physicochemical properties, such as CMC, Krafft point, cloud point are described. Types of surfactants and their applications in cosmetic/consumer products, pharmaceuticals, foods and petroleum are discussed. Key performance aspects of surfactants including foam stability, emulsification, and rheology modification are also discussed.

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Polymeric Surfactants: Synthesis, Properties, and Links to Applications

Cited by 299 publications

References 490 publications

Triblock copolymers of styrene and sodium methacrylate as smart materials: synthesis and rheological characterization

Triblock copolymers of styrene and sodium methacrylate as smart materials: synthesis and rheological characterization

Improving Recovery Through Surfactant Desorption on An Oil Wet Limestone Reservoir

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