Tri‐Chain Hydrocarbon Surfactants as Designed Micellar Modifiers for Supercritical CO₂

Abstract

Getting their feet wet: Low-cost hydrocarbon surfactants act as fluid modifiers for supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO(2)). Increased terminal branching of the surfactant chains aids micelle formation (see middle picture: CO(2) green), and more chains allows water to be incorporated (right, blue).