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Co-adsorption of surfactants and water at inorganic solid surfaces
Timothy G Cooper1, Nora H de Leeuw
1Department of Chemistry, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, UK RG6 6AD.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|August 23, 2002
Abstract:
Computer simulations of the co-adsorption of water and methanoic acid at a range of surface features of calcite and fluorite minerals have shown that the relative adsorption energies for the two minerals are reversed when solvent effects are included in the calculations, a finding which is important in the search for effective surfactant reagents in flotation techniques, which are used extensively in the mining and pharmaceutical industries and in environmental remediation processes.