Nonionic Surfactants Catalog

First, an interface is a boundary surface that exists between two substances with different properties, and interfaces exist between liquids and solids, liquids and liquids, and liquids and gases.

 Surfactants enhance performance by performing functions such as washing, emulsifying, dispersing, wetting, and penetrating at this interface.

Interface = a boundary surface that exists between two substances with different properties
Liquid and solid: cup and coffee, machine and lubricant 
Liquid and liquid: water and oil 
Liquid and gas: seawater and air, soap bubbles

Examples of roles of surfactants
Cleaning ・・・ Removing dirt 
Emulsification ・・・ Dispersion ・・ Making unmixable things easier to mix
Wetting / Penetration ・・・ Makes wetting and soaking easier

-Surfactants have different structures in their molecules with different properties: lipophilic groups (oil-fitting parts) and hydrophilic groups (water-fitting parts).

-Surfactants are broadly classified into four types according to the structure of the hydrophilic group: nonionic, anionic, cationic, and amphoteric (having both anionic and cationic groups).

It consists of seven short movies for each function. 
0:00　Introduction of surfactants functions　
0:16　Part1　Washability
1:00　Part2　Permeability
2:10　Part3　Dispersion
2:55　Part4　Foaming porperties
3:25　Part5　Defoaming properties
3:39　Part6　Smoothness
4:20　Part7　Antibacterial properties

Sanyo Chemical's main lineup of nonionic surfactants are classified by strain (structure and hydrophobic group raw materials) and HLB as shown in the table below.

NAROACTY CL

"NAROACTY CL" products have excellent surface tension lowering ability, detergency, and emulsifying power, and are widely used as a raw material for various detergents for kitchen, clothing, and residential use, and as detergents, emulsifiers, dispersants, and wetting agents in the textile, paper, pulp, synthetic resin, and metal industries.

SANNONIC FN

"SANNONIC FN" are synthetic higher alcohol-based nonionic surfactants with good low-temperature flowability. Compared to other nonionic surfactants with similar cloud point, it has a low flow point, which makes it easy to transfer and compound.
They can be widely used as a raw material for kitchen detergents, clothing detergents, and household detergents, as well as for detergents, emulsifiers, dispersants, and wetting agents in the textile industry, paper and pulp industry, plastics industry, metal industry, and other industrial fields.

"SANNONIC SS" products are an ethylene oxide adduct of secondary alcohols and has excellent penetrating properties.

"EMULMIN No." products are polyoxyethylene alkyl ether type nonionic surfactant made by addition polymerization of ethylene oxide to natural higher alcohols (mainly oleyl alcohol and cetyl alcohol).

In addition to being used as a raw material for household detergents, it is also used as emulsifiers, dispersants, wetting agents, and detergents in the cosmetics industry, metal industry, synthetic resin industry, agrochemical industry, textile industry, and other industrial fields.

"IONET D" products are fatty acid diesters of polyethylene glycol, and "IONET M" products are fatty acid monoesters of polyethylene glycol. They are used as emulsifiers, dispersants, and smoothing agents in a wide range of industrial fields, including the agrochemical industry, metal industry, cosmetic industry, paper and pulp industry, and fiber industry.

"IONET T" products are polyhydric alcohol fatty acid ester type nonionic surfactants that uses a condensed product of sorbitan as a polyhydric alcohol component and are used as an emulsifiers, solubilizers, dispersing agents, and rust inhibitors.

"IONET T" products are ethylene oxide (EO) adducts of fatty acid esters of sorbitan, and are nonionic surfactants generally referred to as twin-type surfactants.

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