Chemistry and Physics of Lipids 2006-01-01

Phase behaviour of stearic acid-stearonitrile mixtures. A thermodynamic study in bulk and at the air-water interface.

A C T Teixeira, A M P S Gonçalves da Silva, A C Fernandes

Index: Chem. Phys. Lipids 144(2) , 160-71, (2006)

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Abstract

The solid-liquid phase behaviour of stearic acid (SA) and stearonitrile (SN) in binary mixtures was investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and the formation of SA-SN mixed monolayers at the air-water interface was followed by surface pressure-area (pi-A) measurements and by Brewster angle microscope (BAM) observation. The solid-liquid phase diagram is a eutectic type phase diagram, with the eutectic composition 0.90