Co-adsorption of surfactants and water at inorganic solid surfaces.
Computer simulations of the co-adsorption of water and methanoic acid at a range of surface features of calcite and fluorite minerals have shown that the relative adsorption energies for the two minerals are reversed when solvent effects are included in the calculations, a finding which is important in the search for effective surfactant reagents in flotation techniques, which are used extensively in the mining and pharmaceutical industries and in environmental remediation processes.
Department of Chemistry, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, UK RG6 6AD.
Timothy G
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Cooper
Nora H
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de Leeuw