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effective at lowering the surface tension of water and the interfacial tension
of water-hexadecane, and displayed minimal tension values in the range of
20-24 and 12-17 dyn cm
1
, respectively, at concentrations of 200-250 mM.
Acknowledgements
The author gratefully acknowledges Mr Daniel Knetzer for his help with the
GPC, DSC, and TGA experiments, Mrs Erin Walter for help with the oil
physical properties study, and Dr Karl Vermillion for collecting the NMR
spectra.
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