Adsorption kinetics of alkyl phosphine oxides in water/alkane systems with transfer across the interface

The adsorption kinetics of alkyl phosphine oxides soluble both in water and in alkanes has been experimentally studied by measuring the dynamic interfacial tension. To this aim the pendant drop method was used with an automatic acquisition of the drop shape (ASTRA). The experimental results show that under particular geometrical and initial conditions, the dynamic interfacial tension exhibits a minimum.