Reflecting the widespread use and study of mixed surfactant systems and the abundance of new and emerging applications in the field, the expanded and completely revised second edition of this reference studies the physicochemical properties and behavior of surfactant mixtures with chapters by world-renowned leaders in industry. This edition features an up-to-date scientific account of the dynamics of mixed surfactant systems; new information on surfactant mixtures in detergency; discussions of monolayers of mixed surfactants, diffusion of mixed micelles, mixtures of surfactants and polymers; and more.

From the Preface: “...In editing the book, we replaced about two thirds of the contributors in the first edition, avoiding overlap of subjects with those of the first edition except where progress merited an updated chapter, and attempted to incorporate the results of the newest experimental and theoretical investigations on mixed surfactant systems as much as possible. Thus, the book contains a variety of topics...”

Target Audience: Surface and interfacial chemists; physical chemists; and chemical engineers.

Table of Contents:

Miscibility in Binary Mixtures of Surfactants

Micro-Phase Separation in Two-Dimensional Amphiphile Systems

The Differential Conductivity Technique and Its Application to Mixed Surfactant Solutions for Determining Ionic Constants

Diffusion Processes in Mixed Surfactant Systems

Mixed Micellar Aggregates of Nonionic Surfactants with Short Hydrophobic Tails

The Effect of Mixed Counterions on the Micelle Structure of Perfluorinated Anionic Surfactants

Delayed Degradation of Drugs by Mixed Micellization with Biosurfactants

A Thermodynamic Study on Competitive or Selective Solubilization of 1:1 Mixed Solubilizate Systems: Solubilization of Different Sterols Mixtures by Bile Salt Micelles in Water

Phase Behavior and Microstructure in Aqueous Mixtures of Cationic and Anionic Surfactants

Phase Behavior and Microstructure of Liquid Crystals in Mixed Surfactant Systems

Sponge Structures of Amphiphiles in Solution

Surfactant Gels from Small Unilamellar Vescicles

Microscopic Phase Separation in Mixed Micellar Solutions

Dynamic Interfacial Properties of Mixed Surfactant Systems Containing Light-Sensitive Surfactants

Control of Molecular Aggregate Formatoni and Solubilization Using Electro- and Photoresponsive Surfactant Mixtures

Adsolubilization by Binary Surfactant Mixtures

Admicellization and Adsolubilization of Fluorocarbon—Hydrocarbon Mixed Chain Surfactant

Precipitation of Surfactant Mixtures

Surfactant—Polymer Interactions

Ultrasonic Relaxation Studies of Mixed Surfactant Systems — Analysis of Data to Yield Kinetic Parameters

Photocatalysis at Solid/Liquid Interfaces — Photooxidation of Mixed Aqueous Surfactants at the TiO₂/H₂O Interface

Index