Dynamic interfacial properties of sugar-based surfactants: Experimental study and modeling

Abstract Careful investigation about dynamic adsorption properties of surfactant molecules has a tremendous interest for their practical applications. The intention of this article is to study the dynamic adsorption properties at air/water interface for 16 nonionic sugar-based surfactants with gradual structure variation. Based on obtained results the dynamic surface tension (DST) behaviour of glycolipids was found to depend on both hydrophobic chain length and bulk concentration of surfactant. Interestingly, the plot of the maximum rate of surface tension decrease against the surfactant bulk concentration showed a linear trend for all studied surfactants independently of their structure. Furthermore, it was confirmed that all molecules were gathered on one unique curve representing a plot of the limit elasticity versus the relative surface concentration of surfactant. The using approach provided further insight into the anticipation of the dynamic surface properties of sugar-based amphiphiles.