Abstract
AbstractAn environmental friendly oil‐soluble surfactant colophony xylitol ester (CXE) is first synthesized from natural colophony and xylitol with the use of hot‐compressed water and subcritical CO2 in a steel autoclave. In this solvent‐free system, the conversion of the reaction was up to 90.30% in 4 h. Thermal gravimetric analysis determine that its thermal stability was as high as 310°C. CXE is effective in reducing the surface tension of six different organic solvents. The greatest effect of surface tension reduction by CXE is in the case of dimethyl sulfoxide, the surface tension of the surfactant solution was as low as 36.26 mN/m at its critical micelle concentration value of 7.49 mM; The greatest effect of interfacial tension reduction by CXE is in the case of turpentine and water, the interfacial tension low to 1.51 mN/m. Furthermore, transmission electron microscope and particle size measurement showed that CXE is successfully self‐assembled into micelles, vesicles, and heteromorphic vesicles in six kinds of organic solvents. Finally, the critical micelle concentration curves at different temperatures provided the thermodynamic parameters of the aggregate formation, found that , , and are negative and increased as the temperature increased.
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