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Huiying Cao1, Yongjian Cheng, Pinwen Huang
1National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
The charging behavior of PS (polystyrene) particles dispersed in nonpolar solvent containing surfactant AOT (sodium di-2-ethylhexylsulfosuccinate) was researched by phase angle light scattering (PALS). The effects of the AOT concentration, the particle concentration and the particle size on the zeta potential of the particles were analyzed systemically. The results showed, at different particle concentrations (expressed in the volume fraction of 10(-5)-10(-3)), that the zeta potential could be adjusted by surfactant AOT over a wide concentration range of 0.001-100 mM. An obvious difference of zeta potential on particle concentration was revealed between the high AOT concentrations (beyond 10 mM) and the low ones (below 1 mM). Meantime, it was found that the relationship of particle size to zeta potential showed a great discrepancy between the dilute particle concentrations (below 10(-4)) and the concentrated ones (beyond 6 × 10(-4)). These findings were consistent with the mechanism of preferential adsorption of the charged micelles in nonpolar solvent.
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