Manipulation of the adsorption of ionic surfactants onto hydrophilic silica using polyelectrolytes

This paper demonstrates the use of polyelectrolytes to modify and manipulate the adsorption of ionic surfactants onto the hydrophilic surface of silica. We have demonstrated that the cationic polyelectrolyte poly(dimethyl diallylammonium chloride), poly-dmdaac, modifies the adsorption of cationic and anionic surfactants to the hydrophilic surface of silica. A thin robust polymer layer is adsorbed from a dilute polymer/surfactant solution. The resulting surface layer is cationic and changes the relative affinity of the cationic surfactant hexadecyl trimethylammonium bromide, C16TAB, and the anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate, SDS, to adsorb. The adsorption of C16TAB is dramatically reduced. In contrast, strong adsorption of SDS was observed, in situations where SDS would normally have a low affinity for the surface of silica. We have further shown that subsequent adsorption of the anionic polyelectrolyte sodium poly(styrene sulfonate), Na-PSS, onto the poly-dmdaac coated surface results in a change back to an anionic surface and a further change in the relative affinities of the cationic and anionic surfactants for the surface. The relative amounts of C16TAB and SDS adsorption depend on the coverage of the polyelectrolyte, and these preliminary measurements show that this can be manipulated.     

Depletion flocculation of latex dispersion in ionic micellar systems

The flocculation behavior of anionic and cationic latex dispersions induced by addition of ionic surfactants with different polarities (SDS and cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB)) have been evaluated by rheological measurements. It was found that in identical polar surfactant systems with particle surfaces of SDS + anionic lattices and CTAB + cationic lattices, a weak and reversible flocculation has been observed in a limited concentration region of surfactant, which was analyzed as a repletion flocculation induced by the volume-restriction effect of the surfactant micelles. On the other hand, in oppositely charged surfactant systems (SDS + cationic lattices and CTAB + anionic lattices), the particles were flocculated strongly in a low surfactant concentration region, which will be based on the charge neutralization and hydrophobic effects from the adsorbed surfactant molecules. After the particles stabilized by the electrostatic repulsion of adsorbed surfactant layers, the system viscosity shows a weak maximum again in a limited concentration region. This weak maximum was influenced by the shear rate and has a complete reversible character, which means that this weak flocculation will be due to the depletion effect from the free micelles after saturated adsorption.     

疏水缔合共聚物与表面活性剂的界面相互作用

采用界面张力弛豫法研究了疏水缔合聚合物聚丙烯酰胺/2-乙基己基丙烯酸酯[P(AM/2-EHA)]在正辛烷-水界面上的扩张粘弹性质, 考察了不同类型表面活性剂十二烷基硫酸钠(SDS)、聚环氧乙烯醚(Tx-100)和十六烷基三甲基溴化铵(CTAB)对其界面扩张性质的影响. 研究发现, 界面上的表面活性剂分子可以与聚合物的疏水嵌段形成类似混合胶束的聚集体, 表面活性剂分子与聚集体之间存在快速交换. 这种弛豫过程的特征时间远比分子在体相与界面间的扩散交换时短. 当界面面积增大时, 上述混合胶束中的表面活性剂分子能快速释放, 在界面层内原位快速消除界面张力梯度, 从而大大降低界面扩张弹性. 界面上的CTAB分子与聚合物链节上的负电中心通过较强的电荷吸引作用形成复合物. 当界面面积增大时, 上述混合胶束中的CTAB分子释放较慢, 界面张力梯度较大. 非离子表面活性剂Tx-100分子量较大, 扩散速率较慢, 它在界面上与聚集体间的交换比阴离子表面活性剂SDS慢, 其特征时间约为0.9 s.     

Polyelectrolyte modified solid surfaces: the consequences for ionic and mixed ionic/nonionic surfactant adsorption

This paper describes how the cationic polyelectrolyte, polyDMDAAC (poly(dimethyl diallylammonium chloride)), is used to manipulate the adsorption of the anionic surfactant SDS and the mixed ionic/nonionic surfactant mixture of SDS (sodium dodecyl sulfate)/C(12)E(6) (monododecyl hexaethylene glycol) onto the surface of hydrophilic silica. The deposition of a thin robust polymer layer from a dilute polymer/surfactant solution promotes SDS adsorption and substantially modifies the adsorption of SDS/C(12)E(6) mixtures in favor of a surface relatively rich in SDS compared to the solution composition. Different deposition conditions for the polyDMDAAC layer are discussed. In particular, at higher solution polymer concentrations and in the presence of 1 M NaCl, a thicker polymer layer is deposited and the reversibility of the surfactant adsorption is significantly altered.     

The effect of surfactants on adsorbed layers of a cationic polyelectrolyte

A comparative study of the influence of anionic (sodium dodecyl sulfate, SDS), cationic (tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide, TTAB) and non-ionic (penta-ethyleneglycol mono n-dodecyl ether, C₁₂E₅) surfactants on the structure and composition of adsorbed layers of cationic hydrophobically modified hydroxyethylcellulose (Quatrisoft LM 200) on hydrophilic surfaces (mica and silica) was carried out using surface force apparatus andin situ null ellipsometry. It is shown that a complex interplay of electrostatic, hydrophobic, and steric effect govern polymer/surfactant/surface interactions and that the effect of surfactant addition strongly depends on its nature and concentration.Both anionic and non-ionic surfactants exhibit aggregation on the polymer hydrophobes. SDS has the most profound influence on Quatrisoft interfacial behavior due to the changes in electrostatics accompanying formation of the polymer/surfactant complex. In the case of C₁₂E₅, large surfactant clusters bound to the polymer affect the macromolecules' conformation in the adsorbed layer via steric effects. In contrast to SDS and C₁₂E₅, no evidence of interaction between the polycation and a like-charged surfactant, TTAB, was obtained. At the same time, TTAB adsorbs on the surface in competition with the polyelectrolyte. This results in partial displacement of the latter and its looser attachment to the surface.     

Interaction between the water soluble poly{1,4-phenylene-[9,9-bis(4-phenoxy butylsulfonate)]fluorene-2,7-diyl} copolymer and ionic surfactants followed by spectroscopic and conductivity measurements

The interaction has been studied in aqueous solutions between a negatively charged conjugated polyelectrolyte poly{1,4-phenylene-[9,9-bis(4-phenoxybutylsulfonate)]fluorene-2,7-diyl} copolymer (PBS-PFP) and several cationic tetraalkylammonium surfactants with different structures (alkyl chain length, counterion, or double alkyl chain), with tetramethylammonium cations and with the anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) by electronic absorption and emission spectroscopy and by conductivity measurements. The results are compared with those previously obtained on the interaction of the same polymer with the nonionic surfactant C12E5. The nature of the electrostatic or hydrophobic polymer-surfactant interactions leads to very different behavior. The polymer induces the aggregation with the cationic surfactants at concentrations well below the critical micelle concentration, while this is inhibited with the anionic SDS, as demonstrated from conductivity measurements. The interaction with cationic surfactants only shows a small dependence on alkyl chain length or counterion and is suggested to be dominated by electrostatic interactions. In contrast to previous studies with the nonionic C12E5, both the cationic and the anionic surfactants quench the PBS-PFP emission intensity, leading also to a decrease in the polymer emission lifetime. However, the interaction with these cationic surfactants leads to the appearance of a new emission band (approximately 525 nm), which may be due to energy hopping to defect sites due to the increase of PBS-PFP interchain interaction favored by charge neutralization of the anionic polymer by cationic surfactant and by hydrophobic interactions involving the surfactant alkyl chains, since the same green band is not observed by adding either tetramethylammonium hydroxide or chloride. This effect suggests that the cationic surfactants are changing the nature of PBS-PFP aggregates. The nature of the polymer and surfactant interactions can, thus, be used to control the spectroscopic and conductivity properties of the polymer, which may have implications in its applications.     

Interaction of surfactant with antistatic polymer thin layers

Thin layers made from three kinds of hydrophilic polymer were coated onto poly(ethylene terephthalate)(PET) fibers to study the interaction of an anionic surfactant, sodiumn-dodecyl benzenesulfonate, with the polymer layers. The coated layers include a) poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) crosslinked with glutaraldehyde [nonionic], b) crosslinked, sulfated PVA [anionic], and c) polyethyleneimine crosslinked with poly(ethyleneglycol diglycidylether) [cationic]. All of these coatings were found to reduce the electrostatic charging of the PET cloths, indicating that they were effectively coated with the hydrophilic polymers. The PET cloth coated with the thin layers was immersed in the aqueous solution of surfactant at 40°C for different durations and the electrostatic voltage as well as the weight change were determined after drying. When the cloth coated with the nonionic or the anionic layer was brought into contact with the surfactant, neither the electrostatic voltage nor the weight of PET changed. On the contrary, immersion in the surfactant solution brought about an increase in both the electrostatic voltage and the weight for the PET coated with the cationic layer. This suggested that the surfactant molecules were bound to the cationic layer, in contrast to the nonionic and the anionic layer. It was concluded that the binding was due to ion complexing between the cationic groups in the polymeric layer and the sulfate groups in the surfactant molecules.     

A combined streaming-potential optical reflectometer for studying adsorption at the water/solid surface

A novel in-situ streaming-potential optical reflectometry apparatus (SPOR) was constructed and utilized to probe the molecular architecture of aqueous adsorbates on a negatively charged silica surface. By combining optical reflectometry and electrokinetic streaming potentials, we measure simultaneously the adsorption density, gamma, and zeta potential, zeta, in a rectangular flow cell constructed with one transparent wall. Both dynamic and equilibrium measurements are possible, allowing the study of sorption kinetics and reversibility. Using SPOR, we investigate the adsorption of a classic nonionic surfactant (pentaethylene glycol monododecyl ether, C12E5), a simple cationic surfactant (hexadecyl trimethylammonium bromide, CTAB) of opposite charge to that of the substrate surface, and two cationic polyelectrolytes (poly(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate), PDAEMA; (poly(propyl methacrylate) trimethylammonium chloride, MAPTAC). For the polyethylene oxide nonionic surfactant, bilayer adsorption is established above the critical micelle concentration (cmc) both from the adsorption amounts and from the interpretation of the observed zeta potentials. Near adsorption saturation, CTAB also forms bilayer structures on silica. Here, however, we observe a strong charge reversal of the surface. The SPOR data, along with Gouy-Chapman theory, permit assessment of the net ionization fraction of the CTAB bilayer at 10% so that most of the adsorbed CTAB molecules are counterion complexed. The adsorption of both C12E5 and CTAB is reversible. The adsorption of the cationic polymers, however, is completely irreversible to a solvent wash. As with CTAB, both PDAEMA and MAPTAC demonstrate strong charge reversal. For the polyelectrolyte molecules, however, the adsorbed layer is thin and flat. Here also, a Gouy-Chapman analysis shows that less than 20% of the adsorbed layer is ionized. Furthermore, the amount of charge reversal is inversely proportional to the Debye length in agreement with available theory. SPOR provides a new tool for elucidating aqueous adsorbate molecular structure at solid surfaces.     

Self-assembling of guanidine-type surfactant

Self-assembling characteristics of dodecylguanidine hydrochloride (C 12G), a cationic surfactant with a guanidine group in its molecule, were investigated and compared with those of dodecyltrimethylammonium chloride (DTAC) and sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS). Introduction of a guanidine group into the surfactant molecule was found to increase its assembly formability more than that of the trimethylammonium group on the basis of the experimental results on the phase diagram, Kraft point, area occupied per molecule at the air-water interface, and micellar aggregation number of C 12G. Thermodynamic parameters for micelle formation suggested that an attractive force acts between guanidine groups of C 12G molecules to facilitate their assembly formation. The presence of this force was evidenced by changes in the (1)H NMR and IR spectra before and after micelle formation of the guanidine-type (G-type) surfactant, indicating that the increased assembly formability is caused by an increase in hydrogen bonding between guanidine groups of the surfactant via water molecules.     

两相催化体系中烯烃氢甲酰化的高区域选择性

采用水溶性铑膦配合物催化剂在两相(水/有机物)体系中进行长链烯烃氢甲酰化反应合成高碳醛,具有反应条件缓和、催化剂与产物容易分离的优点,而且用水作溶剂既便宜、又安全,有利于环境保护,因此引起国内外化学家重视,进行了大量研究[1,2].     

表面活性剂与叶酸的相互作用及其对光氧化降解的影响

表面活性剂与有机小分子作用不仅能提高表面活性剂的聚集能力,还能提高小分子的溶解度、稳定性等应用性能,因此研究二者之间的相互作用机理对于促进表面活性剂的发展和实际应用具有重要意义。本工作提出了一种利用功能有机小分子调控表面活性剂聚集行为,进而提高不稳定小分子自身稳定性的新策略。利用表面张力、紫外可见吸收光谱、荧光光谱、动态光散射、等温滴定量热和核磁共振技术研究了在p H为7.0时,叶酸分别与十二烷基硫酸钠(SDS)、十二烷基三甲基溴化铵(DTAB)、季铵盐Gemini 12-6-12和季铵盐线性三聚12-3-12-3-12四种表面活性剂之间的相互作用及其导致的叶酸光氧化降解性能的变化,结果表明,阴离子表面活性剂SDS抑制叶酸光氧化降解的效率较低,而阳离子表面活性剂都能够显著抑制叶酸的光氧化降解,且随着表面活性剂寡聚度的增加,抑制效果增强,所需表面活性剂的浓度显著降低,寡聚表面活性剂12-3-12-3-12的抑制效率高达96%。     

Crystallization and aggregation behaviors of calcium carbonate in the presence of poly(vinylpyrrolidone) and sodium dodecyl sulfate

An anionic surfactant interacts strongly with a polymer molecule to form a self-assembled structure, due to the attractive force of the hydrophobic association and electrostatic repulsion. In this crystallization medium, the surfactant-stabilized inorganic particles adsorbed on the polymer chains, as well as the bridging effect of polymer molecules, controlled the aggregation behavior of colloidal particles. In this presentation, the spontaneous precipitation of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) was conducted from the aqueous systems containing a water-soluble polymer (poly(vinylpyrrolidone), PVP) and an anionic surfactant (sodium dodecyl sulfate, SDS). When the SDS concentrations were lower than the onset of interaction between PVP and SDS, the precipitated CaCO3 crystals were typically hexahedron-shaped calcite; the increasing SDS concentration caused the morphologies of CaCO3 aggregates to change from the flower-shaped calcite to hollow spherical calcite, then to solid spherical vaterite. These results indicate that the self-organized configurations of the polymer/surfactant supramolecules dominate the morphologies of CaCO3 aggregates, implying that this simple and versatile method expands the morphological investigation of the mineralization process.     

In-situ FTIR studies on self-assembled monolayers of surfactant molecules adsorbed on H-terminated Si(111) surfaces in aqueous solutions

The adsorption of a surfactant, sodium di-2-ethylhexyl sulfosuccinate (SDES), [C4H9CH(C2H5)CH2OCO][C4H9CH(C2H5)CH2OCOCH2]CHSO3- Na+, in an aqueous solution on an atomically flat H-terminated Si(111) [abbreviated as H-Si(111)] surface with a hydrophobic property was investigated by in-situ FTIR measurements. Immersion of the H-Si(111) surface in a solution of 1.0 x 10(-2) M SDES for more than 2 h led to formation of a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) with the alkyl chains having a tendency to be assembled perpendicular to the Si surface. The in-situ FTIR observation revealed that the adsorption was nearly complete about 60 min after the start of the immersion, and after that the adsorbed molecules changed their arrangement into an ordered mode. The Si-H peak in the FTIR spectrum remained unchanged with time in aqueous surfactant solution, in contrast to the case of immersion in pure water, indicating that the adsorbed surfactant protects the H-Si(111) surface from oxidation. No structural change in the SAM was observed when a negative potential of -700 mV vs Ag/AgCl was applied to the Si, whereas the adsorbed molecules changed their arrangement, accompanied by their substantial desorption and oxidation of the Si surface, when a positive potential of +700 mV was applied.     

Electrostatically stabilized metal oxide particle dispersions in carbon dioxide

We report electrostatic stabilization of micrometer-sized TiO(2) particles at long range (several micrometers) in liquid and supercritical CO(2) despite the ultralow dielectric constant, as low as 1.5. The counterions were solubilized in dry reverse micelles, formed with a low-molecular weight cationic perfluoropolyether trimethylammonium acetate surfactant, to prevent ion pairing with the particle surface. Dynamic light scattering and settling velocities indicate a particle diameter of 620-740 nm. The electrophoretic mobility of -2.3 x 10(-8) m(2)/V s indicated a particle charge on the order of -1.7 x 10(-17) C, or 105 elementary negative charges per particle. The balance of particle compression by an electric field versus electrostatic repulsion generated an amorphous arrangement of particles with 5-9 mum spacing, indicating Debye lengths greater than 1 mum. Scattering patterns also indicate that chains of particles may be achieved in CO(2) by dielectrophoresis with alternating fields. The electrostatic stabilization has been achieved by solubilizing a small concentration of counterions in only a small fraction of the reverse micelles in the double layer. Whereas many low-molecular weight surfactants have been shown to form reverse micelles in CO(2), very few polymers are able to stabilize micrometer-sized colloids sterically. Thus, electrostatic stabilization has the potential to expand markedly the domain of colloid science in apolar supercritical fluids.     

卵清蛋白与离子型表面活性剂的相互作用

本文通过荧光光谱法、紫外-可见吸收光谱法和透射电镜并结合电导率测定分别研究了水中卵清蛋白与阴离子表面活性剂十二烷基硫酸钠（SDS）和阳离子表面活性剂十二烷基三甲基溴化铵（DTAB）和十六烷基三甲基溴化铵（CTAB）之间的相互作用。研究结果表明卵清蛋白可以增加SDS和CTAB的临界胶束浓度,但对DTAB的临界胶束浓度没有影响。阴离子表面活性剂可以使卵清蛋白构象完全伸展,而阳离子表面活性剂却不具备此种作用。表面活性剂单体与卵清蛋白的相互作用强于表面活性剂胶束与卵清蛋白的相互作用。     

Adsorption and adsolubilization of surfactants on titanium dioxides with functional groups

Adsorption of ionic surfactants on titanium dioxide with dodecyl chain groups or quaternary ammonium groups (XNm, where m is the carbon number of the alkyl chain, 4–16) was investigated. The adsorbed amount of cationic surfactants (dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide, DTAB; 1,2-bis(dodecyldimethylammonio)ethane dibromide, 2RenQ) on titanium dioxide with dodecyl chain groups increased with increasing concentration of the dodecyl chain due to hydrophobic interaction, where the adsorbed amounts of DTAB at saturation was considerably greater than those of 2RenQ. Adsorption of an anionic surfactant (sodium dodecyl sulfate, SDS) on XNm occurred mainly due to both electrostatic attraction force and hydrophobic interaction, depending on the alkyl chain length on XNm. On the other hand, adsorption of cationic surfactants, DTAC and 2RenQCl (their counter ions are chloride ions), on XNm was quite smaller compared with that of SDS due to electrostatic repulsion force. Adsolubilization of 2-naphthol in the surfactant-adsorbed layer on the titanium dioxides with the functional groups was also studied. The adsolubilized amounts of 2-naphthol on titanium dioxide with dodecyl chain groups were enhanced by adsorption of DTAB, but no distinct increase in the adsolubilization was observed by adsorption of 2RenQ. In the case of XNm, the amount of 2-naphthol adsorbed in the absence of surfactants increased with increasing alkyl chain length on XNm. Further, an appreciable increase in the adsolubilization of 2-naphthol on XNm with adsorption of 2RenQCl was observed. It was found from the admicellar partitioning coefficients that the adsolubilization of 2-naphthol preferably occurs on XNm by adsorption of SDS or 2RenQCl compared with that by DTAC. These differences in the adsolubilization were discussed by microproperties of the surfactant-adsorbed layers estimated using a spin probe.     

Interactions between chitosan and SDS at a low-charged silica substrate compared to interactions in the bulk--the effect of ionic strength

The effect of ionic strength on association between the cationic polysaccharide chitosan and the anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate, SDS, has been studied in bulk solution and at the solid/liquid interface. Bulk association was probed by turbidity, electrophoretic mobility, and surface tension measurements. The critical aggregation concentration, cac, and the saturation binding of surfactants were estimated from surface tension data. The number of associated SDS molecules per chitosan segment exceeded one at both salt concentrations. As a result, a net charge reversal of the polymer-surfactant complexes was observed, between 1.0 and 1.5 mM SDS, independent of ionic strength. Phase separation occurs in the SDS concentration region where low charge density complexes form, whereas at high surfactant concentrations (up to several multiples of cmc SDS) soluble aggregates are formed. Ellipsometry and QCM-D were employed to follow adsorption of chitosan onto low-charged silica substrates, and the interactions between SDS and preadsorbed chitosan layers. A thin (0.5 nm) and rigid chitosan layer was formed when adsorbed from a 0.1 mM NaNO3 solution, whereas thicker (2 nm) chitosan layers with higher dissipation/unit mass were formed from solutions at and above 30 mM NaNO3. The fraction of solvent in the chitosan layers was high independent of the layer thickness and rigidity and ionic strength. In 30 mM NaNO3 solution, addition of SDS induced a collapse at low concentrations, while at higher SDS concentrations the viscoelastic character of the layer was recovered. Maximum adsorbed mass (chitosan + SDS) was reached at 0.8 times the cmc of SDS, after which surfactant-induced polymer desorption occurred. In 0.1 mM NaNO3, the initial collapse was negligible and further addition of surfactant lead to the formation of a nonrigid, viscoelastic polymer layer until desorption began above a surfactant concentration of 0.4 times the cmc of SDS.     

表面活性剂双水相的性质及其应用 Ⅰ. 表面活性剂双水相的微环境性质

阴、阳离子表面活性剂混合体系, 在一定浓度及混合比范围内, 可以形成两个互不相溶、平衡共存的水相, 称为表面活性剂双水相。其中阳离子表面活性剂过量的双水相体系, 称为阳离子双水相。本文分别以芘和罗丹明B作为探针, 用荧光探针法研究了摩尔比为1.6:1的C12NE和SDS混合体系成形成的阳离子双水相,测定其上层和下层的胶束微环境的极性和微粘度, 取得了有意义的结果。     

Wormlike micelles in poly(oxyethylene) surfactant solution: Growth control through hydrophilic-group size variation

Rheological responses of colloidal gels formed from fumed silica suspensions in aqueous KOH solution at pH 11 by the addition of cationic surfactants, such as dodecyltrimethylammonium chloride (C12 TAC) and hexadodecyltrimethylammonium chloride (C16 TAC) have been investigated as functions of silica and surfactant concentrations. Stable and aggregated fumed silica suspensions with negative charges cause gelling by adding the cationic surfactants through electrical neutralization of their micelles. The resulting critical strain and storage modulus of the gelled silica suspension increase with an increase in the surfactant concentration, irrespective of the cationic surfactant. This means that the higher the surfactant concentration is, the more effective the electrical neutralization interaction through the micelle of the cationic surfactant is. Moreover, the resulting gels can be classified into the strong-link gel and the weak-link one in the presence of C12 TAC and C16 TAC, respectively, from a comparison of the silica volume fraction dependences of critical strain and storage modulus with the fractal gel model.     

Adsorption behavior of hydrophobin and hydrophobin/surfactant mixtures at the solid-solution interface

The adsorption of surface-active protein hydrophobin, HFBII, and HFBII/surfactant mixtures at the solid-solution interface has been studied by neutron reflectivity, NR. At the hydrophilic silicon surface, HFBII adsorbs reversibly in the form of a bilayer at the interface. HFBII adsorption dominates the coadsorption of HFBII with cationic and anionic surfactants hexadecyltrimethyl ammonium bromide, CTAB, and sodium dodecyl sulfate, SDS, at concentrations below the critical micellar concentration, cmc, of conventional cosurfactants. For surfactant concentrations above the cmc, HFBII/surfactant solution complex formation dominates and there is little HFBII adsorption. Above the cmc, CTAB replaces HFBII at the interface, but for SDS, there is no affinity for the anionic silicon surface hence there is no resultant adsorption. HFBII adsorbs onto a hydrophobic surface (established by an octadecyl trimethyl silane, OTS, layer on silicon) irreversibly as a monolayer, similar to what is observed at the air-water interface but with a different orientation at the interface. Below the cmc, SDS and CTAB have little impact upon the adsorbed layer of HFBII. For concentrations above the cmc, conventional surfactants (CTAB and SDS) displace most of the HFBII at the interface. For nonionic surfactant C(12)E(6), the pattern of adsorption is slightly different, and although some coadsorption at the interface takes place, C(12)E(6) has little impact on the HFBII adsorption.