Determination of the critical micelle concentration and cross section area of triblock copolymer
The effects of different concentrations of non-ionic surfactant triblock copolymer poly(eth-ylene glycol)-poly(propylene glycol)-poly(ethylene glycol)(PEG-PPG-PEG;Pluronic L-64)on the surface tension were measured by double-capillary maximum bubble pressure method.The data were processed and analyzed by Origin software,and the critical micelle concentration(CMC)was calculated.Based on Gibbs and Langmuir isothermal formula,the relationship between surface tension and concentration of solution was processed by one-step nonlinear fitting to obtain the cross-sectional area of adsorbed molecules.The experiment expands the application of the maximum bubble pressure method and improves the ability of students to analyze and process the experiment data.
maximum bubble pressure methodtriblock copolymer poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(propylene glycol)-poly(ethylene glycol)critical micelle concentrationmolecular cross section area