Adsorption of ethoxylated styrene oxide and polyacrylic acid and mixtures there of on organic pigment

W K Wijting; J Laven; R A T M van Benthem; G de With

doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2008.08.021

Adsorption of ethoxylated styrene oxide and polyacrylic acid and mixtures there of on organic pigment

J Colloid Interface Sci. 2008 Nov 1;327(1):1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2008.08.021. Epub 2008 Aug 14.

Authors

W K Wijting¹, J Laven, R A T M van Benthem, G de With

Affiliation

¹ Laboratory for Materials and Interface Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

PMID: 18771776
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2008.08.021

Abstract

The adsorption of two polymeric surfactants on an organic pigment was investigated. As surfactants the anionic polyacrylic acid sodium salt (PANa, M(W)=15,000) and a non-ionic block copolymer surfactant based on styrene oxide (SO) and ethylene oxide (EO) (M(W)=1500) were used. The adsorption behavior was analyzed by size exclusion chromatography of the supernatant after centrifugation of the pigment dispersions. It was found that PANa has no affinity to the pigment, whereas SO-EO has a strong affinity to the pigment surface. Competitive adsorption of PANa and SO-EO was not observed. Addition of SO-EO yields stable dispersions.