Abstract
Mixtures of the anionic surfactants sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and sodium dodecanoate (SDoD) were investigated regarding their ability to bind to a hydrophilic nonionic polymer, polyethylene oxide (PEO). By electrical conductivity measurements, the parameters with respect to the onsets of surfactant aggregation were determined in the presence of 0.06 M PEO (critical aggregation concentration) and in its absence (critical micelle concentration). It was found that both plots of these parameters for the multicomponent mixtures against molar fraction of SDoD showed an ideal mixing behavior. The same technique was used to estimate the degree of ionization as a fundamental parameter relating to the interfacial composition of mixed aggregates. In addition, in order to monitor changes in polymer–surfactant structures, we used steady-state quenching fluorescence measurements to characterize the sizes of PEO–SDS/SDoD complexes at different compositions of the complex mixture.
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