Aggregation behaviour and thermodynamics of mixed micellization of 1-hexadecylpyridinium bromide and ionic liquid in ethylene glycol/water binary mixtures

Micellar behavior of binary combinations of ionic liquid, 1-tetradecyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide, with conventional cationic surfactant 1-hexadecylpyridinium bromide was investigated by means of conductometry to study the effect of cosolvent and water content and temperature. The critical micelle concentration and the degree of counterion association were calculated from the conductometry data. Thermodynamic parameters were obtained from the temperature dependence of the critical micelle concentration. The standard Gibbs energy of micellization increased with the increasing percentage of cosolvent as well as the mole fraction of C14mimBr. The standard enthalpy and standard entropy of micelle formation were both decreased with the increasing temperature and the concentration of cosolvent. The entropy contribution was larger than the enthalpic one in pure water, whereas in the ethylene glycol/H2O mixture the enthalpy contribution was predominant