Investigation of the Surface Activity and Interface Behavior of Hybrid Carbosilane–Cyclosiloxane Dendrimers

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This work deals with hybrid carbosilane–cyclosiloxane dendrimers featuring variable tension of rings in the outer layer. The presence of a siloxane bond in the shell of these dendrimers, due to its surface activity, allows the formation of monolayers at the interface. The interfacial energies at a water–hexane interface, measured by the spinning drop method, indicate change in the mechanism of emulsion stabilization with an increase in the generation number of the dendrimers explored.