Second Edition
edited by Kunio Esumi
and Minoru Ueno

In response to intensifying interest on surfactant research brought on by recent innovation, Structure-Performance Relationships in Surfactants examines novel developments in our understanding of the properties and performance of surfactants at air-liquid, liquid-liquid, and solid-liquid interfaces.

Highlights seven new chapters and carefully updated material to reflect current trends! Features notable contributions from Japan, Europe, and the United States.

This second edition presents new material on

• the absorption of vesicle-forming surfactants at the air-water interface
• fluorinated surfactants having two hydrophobic chains
• surface-active properties of telomer-type surfactants having several hydrocarbon chains
• the association behavior of amphiphilic dendritic polymers
• polymer and surfactant systems
• adsolubilization and related phenomena
• the arrangement of adsorbed surfactants on solid surfaces by AFM observation

Contents

1. Theoretical Studies of Surfactants
   1. Theory of Micelle Formation: Quantitative Approach to Predicting Micellar Properties from Surfactant Molecular Structure
   2. Modeling Association and Adsorption of Surfactants

2. Physicochemical Properties of Surfactants at Air—Liquid Interface and in Solutions
   3. Adsorption of Vesicle-Forming Surfactants at the Air—Water Interface
   4. Physicochemical Properties of Bile Salts
   5. Characterization and Functionalization of Biosurfactants
   6. Physicochemical Properties of Ring-Structured Surfactants
   7. Dimeric (Gemini) Surfactants
   8. Fluorinated Surfactants Having Two Hydrophobic Chains
   9. Surface-Active Properties of Telomer-Type Surfactants Having Several Hydrocarbon Chains
   10. Viscoelastic Surfactant Solutions
   11. Microstructures of Nonionic Surfactant—Water Systems: From Dilute Micellar Solution to Liquid Crystal Phase
   12. Association Behavior of Amphiphilic Dendritic Polymers
   13. Polymer/Surfactant Systems
   14. Highly Concentrated Cubic Phase-Based Emulsions

3. Surfactant Behaviors at Solid-Liquid Interface
   15. Adsolubilization and Related Phenomena
   16. Adsorption of Polymer and Surfactant from Their Binary Mixtures on an Oxide Surface
   17. Dispersion of Particles by Surfactants
   18. Arrangement of Adsorbed Surfactants on Solid Surfaces by AFM Observation

Index

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