Abstract
We have determined the concentration–depth profiles of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and cesium dodecyl sulfate (CDS) in their pure solutions, by which the surface structure of those solutions are characterized. With the identical bulk concentration, more Cs ions than sodium ions are present at the topmost layer and they penetrate deeper than sodium ions into the layer formed by the heads of the anions, shielding the electrostatic repulsion among those negatively charged anions more efficiently. The distributions of the charge at the surface of each studied solution were determined from those concentration–depth profiles of surfactant ions. The charge density varies more drastically in SDS solutions than in CDS solutions when their bulk concentrations are identical. These charge density profiles exhibit a visible and direct insight into the electric charge structure of the surface of ionic surfactant solutions. The experimental findings might be helpful to the investigations on the surface structures of aqueous solutions of ionic surfactants.
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