There is a series of books - Surfactant science series which has some
of this information. I'm familiar with the Nonionic Surfactants,
Anionic Surfactants, and Cationic Surfactants books (they have
unattractive green covers) from the days when I used to work for a
soap company.
One problem with published phase diagrams is that the behavior of
surfactants can vary considerably among manufacturers and even from
batch to batch, especially for commercial-grade material, but even
for supposedly pure reagents.
Sue
On Oct 22, 2007, at 2:48 PM, Jacob Keller wrote:
Dear CCP4BB,
Although this is not exactly CCP4-related, I thought somebody here
might know whether there is somewhere a definitive list or
tabulation of detergent properties which are not simply copied out
of catalogs, but have been traceably experimentally determined. In
particular, it would be great to have phase diagrams for common
detergents with detergent concentration versus pH, salt
concentration, temperature, etc. Would this not be incredibly
helpful for the scientific community? And yet, this is not so easy
to find....
Jacob
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Biochemistry & Biophysics
University of Arizona
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