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California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

2019

Surfactant

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Beam Loss Analysis Through Particle Tracking Simulation, Marvin Valverde Sep 2019

Beam Loss Analysis Through Particle Tracking Simulation, Marvin Valverde

STAR Program Research Presentations

Water soluble-polymers are commonly used to build detergents or other types of surfactants. These polymers are important because water soluble-polymers used in the development of surfactants have become an essential new factor in the cleaning of oil. However, the development of these surfactants has been constrained by the difficulty of producing them. For this synthesis, phenolic maleimide was used as starting material for a water-soluble polymer. This polymer will be able to break apart at set temperatures and self-assemble into a surfactant.


Rheological Investigations Of Latex-Surfactant-Associative Thickener Aqueous Systems, Bishop I. Hammack Jun 2019

Rheological Investigations Of Latex-Surfactant-Associative Thickener Aqueous Systems, Bishop I. Hammack

Master's Theses

Surfactants and Thickeners are both additives used in fully-formulated waterborne coatings to provide colloidal stability, thickening, and other functionality. The behavior of each ingredient in a coating must be understood and controlled to maintain colloidal stability as well as balance other desired properties of the liquid coating and the dry paint film. In this work, quaternary systems of Water-Latex-Thickener-Surfactant were investigated to further the understanding of their behavior in coatings. The thickener used was a well characterized, hydrophobically-modified, ethoxylated urethane (HEUR) with two C18 terminal hydrophobes and 795 average repeat units of ethylene oxide as the hydrophilic spacer. Two latexes, …