scholarly journals Scrutinizing Self-Assembly, Surface Activity and Aggregation Behavior of Mixtures of Imidazolium Based Ionic Liquids and Surfactants: A Comprehensive Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harsh Kumar ◽  
Gagandeep Kaur

The desire of improving various processes like enhanced oil recovery (EOR), water treatment technologies, biomass extraction, organic synthesis, carbon capture etc. in which conventional surfactants have been traditionally utilized; prompted various researchers to explore the self-assembly and aggregation behavior of different kinds of surface-active molecules. Ionic liquids (ILs) with long alkyl chain present in their structure constitute the advantageous properties of surfactant and ILs, hence termed as surface-active ionic liquids (SAILs). The addition of ILs and SAILs significantly influence the surface-activity and aggregation behavior of industrially useful conventional surfactants. After a brief review of ILs, SAILs and surfactants, the prime focus is made on analyzing the self-assembly of SAILs and the mixed micellization behavior of conventional surfactants with different ILs.

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (33) ◽  
pp. 27370-27377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panpan Sun ◽  
Lijuan Shi ◽  
Fei Lu ◽  
Liqiang Zheng

The effects of anionic type, cationic structure and alkyl chain length are illustrated to regulate the self-assembly of zwitterionic SAILs.


2016 ◽  
Vol 69 (11) ◽  
pp. 1254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiequn Wu ◽  
Tianxiang Yin ◽  
Shaoxiong Shi ◽  
Weiguo Shen

The systematic investigation of the aggregation behaviours of newly synthesised surface-active ionic liquids 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(2-ethylhexyl)sulfosuccinate ([Cnmim][AOT], n = 2, 3, 5, 6, 7) by various techniques is reported. The critical aggregation concentrations (CACs) and the standard Gibbs free energies of aggregation () were determined from measurements on conductivity, fluorescence, and surface tension, which suggested a stronger self-assembly ability in the bulk solution for [Cnmim][AOT] surfactants with longer alkyl chain cations. An interesting structure transition driven by the penetration of the imidazolium cation into the aggregate when n > 4 was found by analysis of the variations of the values of CAC, , the degree of counter ion binding (β), and the micropolarity (I1/I3) immediately after the CAC with changing alkyl chain length of the imidazolium cation, which was further confirmed by 1H NMR measurements.


2014 ◽  
Vol 428 ◽  
pp. 267-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Srinivasa Rao ◽  
Praveen Singh Gehlot ◽  
Tushar J. Trivedi ◽  
Arvind Kumar

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