“…Associative polymers based on polysaccharides have been widely studied since the pioneering work of Landoll (1982). The hydrophobically associated water-soluble polymers contain a small proportion of hydrophobic groups, usually in the form of pendant side chains or terminal groups, which raise of increasing interest for a wide variety of industrial applications, such as: flocculants, thickening agents in oil recovery, latex paints, cosmetics, due to the advantage offered both by polyelectrolyte and hydrophobic groups effect (Bock, Valint, & Pace, 1988;Bock, Varadaraj, Schulz, & Maurer, 1994;Kevin & Taylor, 2003;Schulz & Glass, 1991;Ye & Huang, 1999;Zhang, Da, & Hogen-Esch, 1991).…”