Abstract
Surfactants are compounds that vary widely in structural detail, but which have one characteristic structural feature in common. All surfactants consist of hydrophobic and hydrophilic groups covalently bonded together. The generic structure is shown schematically in Figure 1, together with some typical surfactant structures.
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Warr, G.G. (1998). Surfactants: the principles. In: Pritchard, G. (eds) Plastics Additives. Polymer Science and Technology Series, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5862-6_68
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