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Synthesis and Performance of High Efficiency Cosurfactants: 2. Commercial Variants

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Pages 515-525 | Received 30 Aug 1991, Published online: 27 Apr 2007
 

ABSTRACT

Commercially viable cosurfactant species of enhanced surface activity were used to formulate middle phase microemulsions. These cosurfactants were made from butanol, with randomly added equal weights of ethoxylate (EO) and propoxylate (PO) groups, to give a wide variation in molecular weight. It was found that cosurfactant requirements for microemulsion formation with the highest molecular weight compound studied was reduced more than an order of magnitude when compared to 2-butanol.

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W. H. Wade

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