Wetting transition in a three-component surfactant system
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- Published by EDP Sciences in Journal de Physique
- Vol. 49 (11) , 1821-1824
- https://doi.org/10.1051/jphys:0198800490110182100
Abstract
A wetting transition in the three-component system water/hexadecane/C 6E2, where C6E2 denotes the surfactant C6H13 (OC2H4)2 OH, is found to occur in the three-phase region at the temperature T w = 49.1±0.1°C. Above Tw, the middle surfactant-rich phase wets the interface between the excess water and the excess oil phases, while below Tw it does notKeywords
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