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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Optimisation of water-in-oil microemulsion formulation stabilised by nonylphenol ethoxylated phosphate ester

Mdhlovu, Johan 06 March 2006 (has links)
Water-in-oil (w/o) microemulsion systems, stabilised by either an anionic surfactant or a cationic surfactant were studied. The anionic system consisted of ethoxylated nonylphenol phosphate esters (Atpol), Shellsol oil and an alcohol. These microemulsions tolerated an increase in ionic strength of the water phase up to a point: Beyond this point no microemulsion could be obtained. However, adding amine salts, e.g. diethanolamine nitrite, improved the emulsification of the aqueous phase. Increasing the alcohol (cosurfactant) chain length up to octanol also increased the uptake of the aqueous phase. Thus octanol yielded the best results in terms of emulsifying large volumes of the water-phase, particularly at high salt concentrations. A key objective was to prepare stable microemulsions with high nitrite content. The maximum microemulsion nitrite contents (expressed as NaNO2equivalent by mass) achieved were: -- About 10% when a 30% NaNO2solution was emulsified -- 23% when neat diethyl ethanolamine nitrite (DEEAN) was solubilized, and -- 23% for mixtures of diethanolamine nitrite (DEtOHAN) and NaNO2 in water. The cationic microemulsion system was based on the double-chain cationic surfactant, didodecyldimethyl ammonium chloride (DDAC). In this case the solubilization of the following acetate salts were investigated: ammonium, sodium, magnesium, zinc and manganese. As with the Atpol system, it was found that increasing the ionic strength is detrimental to microemulsification of the aqueous phase. In the DDAC system, an increase in the alcohol chain length beyond butanol led to reduced aqueous phase uptake. Thus the natures and concentrations of the surfactant and the cosurfactant as well as the ionic strength of the aqueous phase determine the stability and the emulsification of large volumes of aqueous phase. In general there is an optimum ionic strength at which the salt content of the microemulsion formulation is maximised. / Dissertation (MSc (Chemistry))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Chemistry / unrestricted
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Diffusionsuntersuchungen an (polymer-modifizierten) Mikroemulsionen mittels Feldgradientenimpuls-NMR-Spektroskopie / Diffusion studies in (polymer-modified) microemulsions using pulsed field gradient NMR spectroscopy

Wolf, Gunter January 2005 (has links)
Aufgrund des großen Verhältnisses von Oberfläche zu Volumen zeigen Nanopartikel interessante, größenabhängige Eigenschaften, die man im ausgedehnten Festkörper nicht beobachtet. Sie sind daher von großem wissenschaftlichem und technologischem Interesse. Die Herstellung kleinster Partikel ist aus diesem Grund überaus wünschenswert. Dieses Ziel kann mit Hilfe von Mikroemulsionen als Templatphasen bei der Herstellung von Nanopartikeln erreicht werden. Mikroemulsionen sind thermodynamisch stabile, transparente und isotrope Mischungen von Wasser und Öl, die durch einen Emulgator stabilisiert sind. Sie können eine Vielzahl verschiedener Mikrostrukturen bilden. Die Kenntnis der einer Mikroemulsion zugrunde liegenden Struktur und Dynamik ist daher von außerordentlicher Bedeutung, um ein gewähltes System potentiell als Templatphase zur Nanopartikelherstellung einsetzen zu können.<br><br> In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden komplexe Mehrkomponentensysteme auf der Basis einer natürlich vorkommenden Sojabohnenlecithin-Mischung, eines gereinigten Lecithins und eines Sulfobetains als Emulgatoren mit Hilfe der diffusionsgewichteten 1H-NMR-Spektroskopie unter Verwendung gepulster Feldgradienten (PFG) in Abhängigkeit des Zusatzes des Polykations Poly-(diallyl-dimethyl-ammoniumchlorid) (PDADMAC) untersucht. Der zentrale Gegenstand dieser Untersuchungen war die strukturelle und dynamische Charakterisierung der verwendeten Mikroemulsionen hinsichtlich ihrer potentiellen Anwendbarkeit als Templatphasen für die Herstellung möglichst kleiner Nanopartikel.<br><br> Die konzentrations- und zeit-abhängige NMR-Diffusionsmessung stellte sich dabei als hervorragend geeignete und genaue Methode zur Untersuchung der Mikrostruktur und Dynamik in den vorliegenden Systemen heraus. Die beobachtete geschlossene Wasser-in-Öl- (W/O-) Mikrostruktur der Mikroemulsionen zeigt deutlich deren potentielle Anwendbarkeit in der Nanopartikelsynthese. Das Gesamtdiffusionsverhalten des Tensides wird durch variierende Anteile aus der Verschiebung gesamter Aggregate, der Monomerdiffusion im Medium bzw. der medium-vermittelten Oberflächendiffusion bestimmt. Dies resultierte in einigen Fällen in einer anormalen Diffusionscharakteristik. In allen Systemen liegen hydrodynamische und direkte Wechselwirkungen zwischen den Tensidaggregaten vor.<br><br> Der Zusatz von PDADMAC zu den Mikroemulsionen resultiert in einer Stabilisierung der flüssigen Grenzfläche der Tensidaggregate aufgrund der Adsorption des Polykations auf den entgegengesetzt geladenen Tensidfilm und kann potentiell zu Nanopartikeln mit kleineren Dimensionen und schmaleren Größenverteilungen führen. / Owing to their large surface-to-volume ratio nanoparticles show interesting size-dependent properties that are not observable in bulk materials. Thus, they are of great scientific and technological interest. Thereby, the highly desirable preparation of as small particles as possible might be easily achieved using microemulsions as template phases. Microemulsions are thermodynamically stable, transparent and isotropic mixtures of water and oil stabilized by an emulsifying agent. However, microemulsions may form a great variety of different microstructures. Thus, it is of utmost importance to know the underlying microstructure and microdynamics of a chosen microemulsion system in order to use it as a template phase for nanoparticle formation.<br><br> In the present study complex multi-component microemulsion systems based on a naturally occurring soybean lecithin mixture, purified lecithin and sulfobetaine as emulsifiers were investigated by diffusion-weighted pulsed field gradient (PFG) 1H NMR spectroscopy in the presence and absence of the polycation poly-(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) (PDADMAC). The central topic of this study was to structurally and dynamically characterize the present microemulsions with respect to their potential use in nanoparticle formation.<br><br> The concentration- and time-dependent NMR diffusion measurements turned out to be a suitable and accurate tool to investigate the microstructure and microdynamics of the systems under investigation. They reveal closed water-in-oil (W/O) microemulsion microstructures which prove the potential suitability of the respective systems as template phases for the preparation of nano-sized particles. The overall diffusion behavior of surfactants were found to be governed by varying contributions from displacements of entire aggregates, monomer diffusion in the medium and bulk-mediated surface diffusion, respectively. In some cases this led to a marked anomalous diffusion characteristics. In all systems interactions between aggregates are dominated by hydrodynamic and direct forces.<br><br> The addition of PDADMAC to the microemulsion systems results in a stabilization of the liquid interface of surfactant aggregates due to the adsorption of the polycation at the oppositely charged surfactant film and may potentially lead to nanoparticles of smaller dimensions and narrower size distributions.

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