Monolayer Study of Cleavable Surfactants

摘要

Cleavable surfactants can be converted into daughter surfactants ornonsurfactants. Their ability to undergo a change from micellar or vesicular form to an alternate aggregated or nonsurfactant form should have many applications in process technologies, including chemical reagent storage and release. The present study was undertaken for several reasons: to compare, if possible, the monolayer behavior of the present compounds to that of the previously studied parent systems; to determine the changes in hydrophilic/hydrophobic balance from isomer to isomer as reflected in monolayer behavior; and to determine the feasibility of the compounds not as vesicle-forming materials, but as possible components for monolayer-based membrane model systems. jg p.2.