
Have you heard about multifunctional surfactants? Today, we’ll introduce some functions about surfactants. Surfactants are a kind of chemical substances that has a wide variety of applications in different industries and are very important components of many products that we use daily.
They can be defined as substances that mainly lower the surface tension of a liquid, which is a property that the surface of liquids possess that allows it to resist to external forces. Surface tension allows some insects to run on the surface of water without sinking or a paper clip to float in water, for example. In the same way surfactants also reduce the interfacial tension between two liquids, for example water and oil. These are very important properties that have found many applications in different products like detergents, wetting agents, defoaming agents, emulsifiers and dispersants.
