Effect of Oligomers and Polymers of Ethylene Glycols on Micellar Characteristics of Aqueous Solutions of Sodium Pentadectyl Sulfonate

Abstract

The influence of oligomers and polymers of ethylene glycols with a different molecular mass on the structural transformations of aqueous solutions of surfactant, sodium pentadecylsulfonate, studied by viscometry and light scattering methods depending on their content in the system. It established that ethylene glycol with a molecular mass of 2,000 and 40,000 does not affect the structure of the system. For ethylene glycol with a molecular mass of 4,000, 6,000, and 20,000, a clearly expressed complex course of the dependence of the intrinsic viscosity of the micelle system on the polymer content was established. It assumed that with the changes in the concentration of ethylene glycols in the system, micelles are compacted due to a change in the balance of hydrophobic-hydrophilic interactions. In parallel with the change in apparent micelle masses and asymmetry coefficients determined by the light scattering method, the intrinsic viscosity also changes depending on the system's composition. The practical application of this research is that it allows the performance properties of sodium pentadecyl sulfonate (SPDS) to be adjusted, thereby expanding and improving its applications.