Author(s): |
Hong-li Shang, School of Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing, China, 400050 Bing-ying Jiang, School of Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing, China, 400050 Min Wang, School of Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing, China, 400050 Jia-qing Xie, School of Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing, China, 400050 |
Abstract: |
The effect of metal ions (Cu(II), Zn(II), Ni(II), Ce(III), La(III), Fe(III)) on the critical micelle concentration (CMC) of ionic surfactant hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB)) was investigated at 25℃ by using conductivity method. A series of general empirical expressions about the relationship between the CMC values for CTAB and the concentrations of metal ions have been derived. The results showed that the CMC values for CTAB decreased with increasing the concentrations of metal ions. This can be interpreted by the counterion effect and the entropy driving effect.
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