Highlights uses of silicone surfactants in lowering surface tension, facilitating spreading and wetting, and as novel emulsifier!

This up-to-the-minute reference serves as a comprehensive introduction to the preparation, uses, and physical chemistry of silicone surfactants—focusing on silicone polyoxyalkylene copolymers that are surface active in both aqueous and nonaqueous systems.

Covers applications in the manufacture of polyurethane foam, coatings, wetting agents, fabric finishes, and polymer surface modifiers.

Written by over 20 celebrated surfactant scientists from academia and industry, Silicone Surfactants

• Describes methods of foam control, agricultural adjuvancy, superspreading, and microemulsions
• Demonstrates uses of organosilicone–polyether copolymer surfactants in packaging, insulation, appliances, and other products
• Explores interfacial processes, surface viscoelasticity, and surfactant aggregation
• Addresses the important nonaqueous systems of polyurethane foam and polymer blend compatibilizers
• Illustrates formulations for cyclomethicone, dimethicone, phenyl trimethicone, and other silicone ingredients commonly used in personal care products
• Assesses surface properties of silicone-containing copolymers
• Explains the unusual wetting behavior of the trisiloxane surfactants and the ternary phase behavior of mixtures of silicone surfactants with water and silicone oils
• Reviews composition of organophilic siloxanes, terpolymers, and carbosilane surfactants, and synthesis of siloxanes by transesterification and hydrosilyation
• And more!

Containing almost 1,000 references, tables, structures, equations, drawings, and micrographs, Silicone Surfactants is an excellent resource for physical, colloid, surface, and polymer chemists; researchers in plastics, fibers, and coatings; cosmetic scientists and technologists; chemical engineers; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

Contents

1. Siloxane Surfactants
2. Silicone Polyether Copolymers: Synthetic Methods and Chemical Compositions
3. Novel Siloxane Surfactant Structures
4. Surface Activity and Aggregation Behavior of Siloxane Surfactants
5. The Science of Silicone Surfactant Application in the Formation of Polyurethane Foam
6. Silicone Polymers for Foam Control and Demulsification
7. Silicone Surfactants: Applications in the Personal Care Industry
8. Silicone Surfactants: Emulsification
9. Use of Organosilicone Surfactants as Agrichemical Adjuvants
10. Polymer Surface Modifiers
11. Surfactant-Enhanced Spreading
12. Ternary Phase Behavior of Mixtures of Siloxane Surfactants, Silicone Oils, and Water

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