MOA-5 (AEO-5) chemical name is C12-14 fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene (5) ether, CAS number 68439-50-9, belonging to nonionic surfactant. The product appearance is a colorless to slightly yellow transparent liquid with good fluidity and compatibility. The synergistic effect of ether bonds and hydroxyl groups in its molecular structure endows the product with excellent emulsifying ability, outstanding wetting and penetrating properties, efficient dispersion and solubilization, as well as excellent chemical stability.
As a general-purpose nonionic surfactant, MOA-5 can maintain stable performance in a wide range of acid-base environments, with outstanding hardness tolerance and less prone to precipitation with calcium and magnesium ions in water. Meanwhile, it has excellent compatibility and can be used synergistically with anionic, cationic, and other nonionic surfactants to flexibly meet various formulation design requirements.
1. Textile printing and dyeing auxiliaries: As a key component of pretreatment scouring agents, leveling agents and finishing auxiliaries, it can effectively remove oil stains and impurities on fabrics, improve dye penetration and leveling effect, ensuring uniform and full dyeing.
2. Leather processing: Used as an efficient penetrant and emulsifier in degreasing, soaking, and fatliquoring processes, helping chemicals to quickly penetrate into leather fibers, improving the softness and fullness of leather.
3. Metal cleaning agents: Used in cleaning formulations for industrial metal parts, it can quickly wet metal surfaces, emulsify and disperse oil stains and cutting fluid residues, with high cleaning efficiency, low foam and easy rinsing.
4. Hard surface cleaners: In household and industrial hard surface cleaning formulations, it plays a role in degreasing and wetting, with good wetting and stripping ability for grease and stains, improving cleaning efficiency.
5. Household detergents: As a core surfactant component in daily washing products such as laundry liquid and dishwashing liquid, it provides excellent degreasing and decontamination performance, with moderate foam characteristics, easy to rinse.
6. Pesticide emulsification: Used as an emulsifier in pesticide emulsifiable concentrates, microemulsions and aqueous emulsion formulations, helping the active ingredient to disperse evenly in water, improving the spreading and control effect of the spray solution.
7. Coatings and inks: Used as a wetting and dispersing agent in water-based coatings and water-based ink systems to promote uniform dispersion of pigments and fillers, improving storage stability and application leveling.
| Parameter | Specification |
|---|---|
| Chemical name | C12-14 fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene (5) ether |
| CAS No. | 68439-50-9 |
| Ionic type | Nonionic surfactant |
| Appearance | Colorless to slightly yellow transparent liquid |
| Aliases | Lauryl alcohol polyoxyethylene (5) ether, Polyoxyethylene (5) lauryl ether, Dodecyl polyoxyethylene (5) ether |
MOA-5 (AEO-5), as a general-purpose nonionic surfactant with balanced performance, is particularly suitable for formulation systems that require both emulsifying, wetting and dispersing properties. It is recommended to be compounded with other surfactants according to specific application scenarios to fully exert its synergistic effect. In textile and leather processing, it can be used as a core component of pretreatment agents; in cleaning formulations, combined with anionic surfactants, it can achieve superior decontamination results.