Room Temperature Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Phases of Catanionic Surfactants Derived from Quaternary Ammonium Surfactants and Bis(2-ethylhexyl)sulfosuccinate

Authors

Robin Jose, University of Houston - DowntownFollow
Tilesh Jayantilal Patel, University of Houston - DowntownFollow
Troy Allen Cather, University of Houston - DowntownFollow
Janusz Grebowicz, University of Houston - DowntownFollow
Haesook Han, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Pradip K. Bhowmik, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Dena Mae Agra-Kooijman, Kent State UniversityFollow
Satyendra Kumar, Kent State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2013

Publication Title

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Volume

411

First page number:

61

Last page number:

68

Abstract

HYPOTHESIS:

Properties of catanionic surfactants can be tailored by the choice of appropriate headgroups and hydrocarbon tails. Thermal behavior of catanionic surfactants can be influenced by the length and number of alkyl chains.

EXPERIMENTS:

A series of eight catanionic surfactants were synthesized from quaternary ammonium surfactants as the cationic counterpart and bis(2-ethylhexyl)sulfosuccinate (AOT) as the anionic counterpart. The thermal properties and the liquid crystalline properties of these catanionic surfactants were studied by the following methods: Thermal Gravimetric Analysis (TGA), Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), Hot-Stage Polarized Light Microscopy (HSPLM), and X-ray Diffraction (XRD).

FINDINGS:

The results indicate that transition temperatures, enthalpies of transition, and mesophase structures vary with the length and number of chains attached to the quaternary nitrogen. These compounds exhibit room temperature liquid crystalline (LC) textures that are predominantly "fan-like," as observed by HSPLM, and phases that are hexagonal columnar, as observed by XRD, with the exception of one compound which exists as a nematic liquid crystal at 25°C. Additionally, all of the surfactants also exhibit thermal stability in the range of 256-300°C.

Keywords

APS; Advanced Photon Source; Amphiphilic Liquid Crystal; Bis(2-Ethylhexyl) Sulfosuccinate; Catanionic Surfactant; DSC; Differential Scanning Calorimetry; Enthalpy Of Isotropization; Entropy Of Isotropization; HSPLM; Hot-Stage Polarized Light Microscopy; Ion-Pair Amphiphile; LC; Mesophase Structure; Liquid Crystalline; Liquid crystals; OT; RT; Room Temperature; Room Temperature Liquid Crystal; Surface active agents; T(I); TGA; Temperature Of Isotropization; Total Enthalpy In The Observed Temperature Range; Thermal Gravimetric Analysis; Total Entropy In The Observed Temperature Range; X-Ray Diffraction; XRD; ΔH(i); ΔH(ovr); ΔS(i); ΔS(ovr)

Disciplines

Biological and Chemical Physics | Chemistry | Physics

Language

English

Repository Citation

Jose, R., Patel, T. J., Cather, T. A., Grebowicz, J., Han, H., Bhowmik, P. K., Agra-Kooijman, D. M., Kumar, S. (2013). Room Temperature Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Phases of Catanionic Surfactants Derived from Quaternary Ammonium Surfactants and Bis(2-ethylhexyl)sulfosuccinate. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 411 61-68.