Volumes and heat capacities of anionic-nonionic surfactant mixtures

Abstract

Density, heat capacity and surface tension measurements of sodium decylsulfate (NaDeS)-dodecyldimethylamine oxide (DDAO)-water mixtures were carried out as functions of the surfactants total molality m_t at fixed stoichiometric mixture compositions X_NaDeS. From the surface tension data, the critical micelle concentration of NaDeS-DDAO mixtures as a function of X_NaDeS were obtained. From density and heat capacity data, the apparent molar volume V_Φ,2 and heat capacity C_Φ,2 of NaDeS-DDAO mixtures in water were calculated, respectively. At a given mole fraction, V_Φ,2 and C_Φ,2 monotonically increases and decreases, respectively, with increasing mt. However, anomalies were observed at X_NaDeS=0.1 and 0.3 for both V_Φ,2 and C_Φ,2 vs. mt curves. The nonideal contributions to the thermodynamic properties for the formation of surfactant-surfactant mixed micelles in water by mixing aqueous solutions of pure NaDeS and DDAO micelles were calculated at 0.3 mol-kg⁻¹ for the micellized surfactants mixture. The excess volume V^exc and heat capacity as functions of X_NaDeS are concave and S-shaped curves, respectively. All the properties are compared to those for sodium dodecylsulfate-DDAO mixture. In addition, to clarify the effect of the change in the hydrophobicity of the surfactants mixtures V^exc for the dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide-decyltrimethylammonium bromide mixture were calculated from literature data.