Investigation of the Adsorption Phenomena of Surfactant on Hydrophilic Surface by Spectroscopic Method

분광학적 방법에 의한 계면활성제의 친수성 표면에 대한 흡착양상 연구

Adsorption characteristics for homologous xanthates on quartz surface has been investigated by FT-IR spectroscopy to understand the adsorption mechanism in relation with verification of the influence of surfactants on the stability of hydrophilic suspended solids in aqueous system. Contact angle measurement for water droplets on quartz surface treated with xanthate was also conducted as a supplementary study for spectroscopic investigation to grant a reliability to the interpretation of experimental results. It has been observed that monolayer of ethyl xanthate was formed on quartz surface as the adsorption progressed and double layer of ethyl xanthate was formed eventually through the reverse oriented adsorption of xanthate molecules on the monolayer. Similar trend of adsorption to the case of ethyl xanthate was found for propyl and butyl xanthates and adsorption was observed to occur more rapidly as the number of carbon atom in alkyl group of xanthate homologs increased. Thermodynamic aspect of adsorption was discussed using Young's equation and the variation in adsorption rate was examined according to the concentration of ethyl xanthate. Based on the result, it has been concluded that the adsorption features of surfactant on substrate in aquatic system is governed by molecular structure and concentration of surfactant and its residual time in aqueous environment as dissolved state also influences greatly the stability of hydrophilic suspended particles.

수중에서 친수성을 나타내는 부유물질의 안정성에 대한 계면활성제의 영향을 고찰하기 위해 quartz에 대한 잔세이트 homologs의 흡착양상을 FT-IR spectroscopy를 통해 조사함으로써 흡착반응 메카니즘을 규명하고자 하였다. 그리고, 이의 결과를 동일 조건에서의 접촉각의 측정 결과와 비교고찰함으로써 반응 메카니즘 해석에 대한 신뢰성을 부여하였다. 에틸 잔세이트의 경우 흡착시간에 따라 quartz 표면에 monolayer를 형성한 후에 계속하여 reverse orientation을 통한 흡착이 진행되어 double layer가 형성됨이 관찰되었다. 프로필과 부틸 잔세이트의 경우에도 유사한 경향이 나타났는데, alkyl group의 C분자수가 증가함에 따라 흡착시간은 감소됨이 파악되었다. Young's equation을 통한 흡착반응의 열역학적 관점에 대해 논하였으며, 동일한 잔세이트의 경우 농도 변화에 따른 흡착속도의 변화에 대해서도 관찰하였다. 본 연구를 통해 수계에서 계면활성제가 부유성 물질에 작용하는 양상은 계면활성제의 농도와 분자구조, 그리고 수중에서 이 물질이 잔류하는 시간에 따라 크게 영향을 받음을 알 수 있었다.