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Adsorption of anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate onto alpha alumina with small surface area

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Adsorption of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) onto large α-alumina beads was systematically analyzed as functions of pH and NaCl concentration. The maximum adsorption density of SDS onto α-Al2O3 increases with decreasing pH due to the increase in equilibrium surface charge. Adsorption isotherms at different salt concentrations demonstrated a common intersection point (CIP) corresponding to charge neutralization. The obtained comprehensive data clarified the applicability of two-step adsorption and four-region models to describe the adsorption isotherms of SDS onto α-Al2O3 beads. Also, proton adsorption isotherms upon SDS uptake onto α-Al2O3 can be fitted by two-step adsorption model with almost the same parameters of surfactant adsorption for 0.001 and 0.01 M NaCl. Our finding indicates that proton adsorption takes place onto the adsorbed SDS. After passing through CIP, proton adsorption onto α-Al2O3 increases at low ionic strength while the amount of proton adsorption does not change for 0.1 M NaCl. Adsorption amount of proton as a function of SDS adsorption shows that only hemimicelles are plausible for case of low ionic strength. The increase in the proton adsorption is not significant at high ionic strength, suggesting the presence of admicelles on the surface of α-Al2O3 beads.

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We are grateful for the financial support from JSPS KAKENHI (22248025, 23688027). Tien Duc Pham would like to thank the financial support from Vietnamese government scholarship (approved by VIED-MOET) for the doctoral study abroad. The authors thank the useful comments from two anonymous reviewers to improve the original manuscript.

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    Tien Duc Pham, Motoyoshi Kobayashi & Yasuhisa Adachi

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Pham, T.D., Kobayashi, M. & Adachi, Y. Adsorption of anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate onto alpha alumina with small surface area. Colloid Polym Sci 293, 217–227 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-014-3409-3

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