Course content

The course is given every year.
Course description, English: This course covers the properties of concentrated surfactant systems, simple polymer (including protein) systems, and the properties of mixed surfactant-surfactant and surfactant-polymer systems. For simple surfactant systems, topics covered include mechanisms of self-assembly, interfacial behaviour (including adsorption at solid surfaces), phase behaviour of concentrated surfactant systems – including binary and ternary phase diagrams, novel surfactants, and microemulsions. The main emphasis of this course is given to the properties of mixed systems – surfactant-surfactant systems and surfactant polymer (including surfactant-protein) systems, including surfactant-polymer interactions, critical association concentrations, phase behaviour and rheology of mixed systems, adsorption, and technical applications. Examples from current research are provided throughout the course.

Learning outcome

This course provides a link between the contents of TKP4130 Polymer Chemistry and TKP4115 Surface and Colloid Chemistry, thus contributing to the fundamental knowledge of how polymers and surfactants interact in technical applications.

Learning methods and activities

Seminars

Recommended previous knowledge

TKP 4115 Surface and Colloid Chemistry, and TKP4130 Polymer Chemistry.

Course materials

Textbook: ”Surfactants and Polymers in Aqueous Solution”, 2nd Edition, 2004
Forfattere: Krister Holmberg, Bo Jönsson, Bengt Kronberg og Björn Lindman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, LTD.
Number of pages: 527

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