Post Graduate Department of Chemistry,College of Commerce Patna - India
*Author for correspondence: Department of Chemistry, Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribagh, Jharkhand
E-mail: anilcoc2013@gmail.com ;
Structural characterization of microemulsions in a pseudoternary system, Triton X -100+1-penanol (1:5 molar ratio)/ n-hexane/ brine system has been done by using different techniques such as quasielastic light scattering (QELS), conductivity, viscosity and crossed polaroid microscope. Different distinct regions such as 1 micellar region, a two-phase region and a very narrow three-phase region were observed in the pseudo-ternary phase diagram. Electrical conductivities and viscosities of the system with different weight fraction of water (w) were determined and results were used to locate sub-regions of the single-phase microemulsion. The results showed that a transition from water-in-oil microstructure via bicontinuous structure to an oil-in-water microemulsion region occurred with increase in weight fraction of water w in the system. The size of the microemulsion droplets was determined by quasi–elastic light scattering. It was found that the sizes of the droplets depended markedly on weight fraction of water (w) and were in the range of 16-38 nm. In the upper portion (at s > 70) of the isotropic region of the phase diagram, the structure of microemulsion droplets is unclear.
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ANIL KUMAR*, RAJA RAM RAI, ARVIND KUMAR SINGH and KAUSHALENDRA KUMAR #, "Structural Characterization of Microemulsions of Triton X-100 + 1-Pentanol/ n-Hexane/ Brine System", Journal of Ultra Chemistry, Volume 10, Issue 1, Page Number 11-18, 2016Copy the following to cite this URL:
ANIL KUMAR*, RAJA RAM RAI, ARVIND KUMAR SINGH and KAUSHALENDRA KUMAR #, "Structural Characterization of Microemulsions of Triton X-100 + 1-Pentanol/ n-Hexane/ Brine System", Journal of Ultra Chemistry, Volume 10, Issue 1, Page Number 11-18, 2016Available from: http://www.journalofchemistry.org/paper/301/