Abstract

ABSTRACTThe transmittance of polyethylenimine (PEI)/cinnamic acid (CA) aqueous mixture was close to zero at 20–40°C, and it began to increase around 40°C due to the disassembling of the self-assembly of the PEI/CA conjugate. As the concentration of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) increased, the increasing rate of the transmittance decreased and the onset temperature increased, indicating that the self-assembly of the PEI/CA conjugate became more stable against heat with the aid of SDS. Tween 20 could also suppress the thermally induced disassembling of the self-assembly, possibly because poly(ethylene oxide) chains of the surfactant could be entangled with the PEI chains. Dodecyltrimethyl ammonium bromide (DTAB) did not have an effect on the temperature-dependent self-assembling phenomena as much as SDS and Tween 20 did. The interfacial tension of the PEI/CA/SDS aqueous mixture and that of the PEI/CA/Tween 20 aqueous mixture at 70°C were lower than the respective tensions observed at 25°C. On the contrary, the interfacial tension of the PEI/CA/DTAB aqueous mixture at 70°C was higher than that observed at 25°C, possibly because the PEI/CA conjugate could lose its surface activity at the higher temperature due to the adsorption of DTAB on CA molecules.

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