Wetting Behaviour of Water, Ethanol, Rhamnolipid, and Triton X-165 Mixture in the Polymer-Solution Drop-Air System.

ABSTRACT: Despite the fact that the wetting properties of multicomponent mixtures including the surface active compounds play a very important role in many practical applications, they are not sufficiently known. Thus, the wettability of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) by the water + ethanol (ET) solution of rhamnolipid (RL) with Triton X-165 (TX165) mixture was studied. The investigations involved measuring the advancing contact angles of this solution on PTFE and PMMA by varying the concentration of TX165 while maintaining a constant concentration of ET and RL. Additionally, a thermodynamic analysis was conducted to obtain the compositions and concentrations of the ET, RL, and TX165 mixtures at the different interfaces. The composition and concentration of the

SUBMITTER: Zdziennicka A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10421433 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature