Theoretical Analysis of the Crosslinking Effect on the Polyelectrolyte-Surfactant Interaction
Theoretical Analysis of the Crosslinking Effect on the Polyelectrolyte-Surfactant Interaction
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交联效应对聚电解质-表面活性剂相互作用的理论分析
DOI:
10.1021/j100027a043
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发表时间:
1995
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通讯作者:
Y. Osada
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作者:
J. Gong;Y. Osada
The stoichiometric binding of surfactant molecules with the charged polymer network is characterized by two processes. One is the electrostatic interaction between the surfactant ion and the oppositely charged network to form salt-like bridging, thus initiating the binding. The other is the hydrophobic interaction between bound surfactants, which stabilizes the aggregation in such a way as to settle the adjacent to the already occupied site along the polymer chain. The former is called “initiation process” and the latter is called “cooperative process”. A number of researches regarding the surfactant—linear polyelectrolyte interaction have been made. 1-6 The cooperative binding process of surfactant with macromolecules has been well described by Zimm—Bragg7 theory, which was proposed for the helix-coil transition of biopolymers. 1, 8 However, only a few studies have been made on the surfactant—polymer network interaction. 9· 10 Khokhlov et al. 9 proposed a theory of weakly charged polyelectrolyte networks immersed in the solution of an oppositely charged surfactant. In their theory, the swelling and collapse of the network was well described, but the electrostatic interaction between the network and the surfactant was not taken into account. Tanaka et al. 10 studied the swelling equilibrium of/V-isopropylacrylamide (NIPA) gel as a function of temperature in aqueous solutions of surfactant and developed the volume-phase transition theoryto the case of surfactant.We have made a comparative study on the surfactant binding with oppositely charged linear and network polymers11-14 and found that the initiation of the binding of the network occurs at a surfactant concentration as low as 10-5 mol/L. Thisis 1 order of magnitude lower than that of linear polyelectrolyte, although the propagation process of the network was significantly suppressed (the cooperativity parameter for linear polymer was 630, while that of the polymer network was~ 1) and the cooperativity was practically prohibited. 11 This paper attempts to theoretically ascribe the role and effect of the cross-linkage on the surfactant binding. The contribution of the hydrophobic interaction has been treatedusing the nearest neighbor interaction model originally employed for polyelectrolyte titration by Marcus. 15 General formulas for the binding of surfactant with a linear polyelectrolyte as well as with a