Variant Molar Mass and Concentration Effect of Polyethylene Glycol over the Physico-Chemical Behaviour of CTAB and SDS

Abstract

The interactions between water-soluble polymers and surfactants have been the subject of academic and industrial research interest for the past decades. Because surfactants are relevant in processes such as detergency, wetting, foaming or emulsification. While polymers are used to control the viscosity of solutions. Therefore, mixing these substances give some synergistic properties as a result of interaction between them. So understanding these interactions has great technological significance in further investigations of the complex structure of polymers and surfactants. Most industrial formulations, such as laundry detergents, personal care products, water-soluble paints and oil recovery fluids, contain both water-soluble polymers and surfactants 1-5. The mixed systems of the water soluble polymer and ionic surfactants have properties differing from those of the pure components due to the complexation of the polymer with the surfactants 6. It is well known that ionic surfactants interact much more strongly than non-ionic surfac