A Promising Surfactant for Enhanced Sorption and Desorption of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

Gemini surfactants, an innovative class of amphiphilic molecules, are of increasingly scientific interest due in part to their effectiveness in soil/water remediation. This study was carried out to investigate the overall partitioning of three representative polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the soil-water–surfactant system which takes into consideration the soil-sorbed cationic Gemini surfactant, presence of Gemini micelles, and …