Wetting Properties of a Few Industrially Useful Surfactant Mixtures as Prerequisite Fundamentals of Dyeing Characteristics

Abstract

Dyeing is a dynamic chemical process on surfaces executed with controlled physicochemical properties of dyeing mixtures. Surface tension (± 0.01 mN/m), interfacial tension (± 0.01 mN/m) and viscosities (± 1x10⁻⁵ N s m⁻²) of dodecyltrimethylammoniumbromide, trimethylsulphoxoniumiodide, methyltrioctylammoniumchloride, (3, 5)-dihydroxy toluene monohydrate or orcinol, dodecyldimethylammoniumbutylcarboxylate, dodecyldimethylammoniumproplysulfate and dodecyldimethylammoniumamineoxide aqueous mixtures were reported at 304.65 Kelvin. The surfactants induced a 60 % decrease in surface tension of water with benzene interfaces with effective wetting of benzene and water interfaces. Methyltrioctylammoniumchloride infused maximum mutual mixing of the phases with the lowest interfacial tension and was the most accessible to textile fabrics in cases of natural and synthetic dyes, pigments and color intensification. Such surfactants mixtures are antibacterial for textiles with a uniform nanometer thick film giving protection against ultraviolet (300 THz or 10 to 400 nm) and gamma (10¹⁹ Hz or 10 pm) radiations due to reflection.

Citation

Singh, M. (2012), "Wetting Properties of a Few Industrially Useful Surfactant Mixtures as Prerequisite Fundamentals of Dyeing Characteristics", Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, Vol. 16 No. 3, pp. 85-93. https://doi.org/10.1108/RJTA-16-03-2012-B008