Microbial biosurfactants are green molecules with high application potential in environmental and industrial sectors. Chemical diversity of biosurfactants allows them versatility and broad range surfactants capability without compromising performanceor economic viability. Biosur…
Surfactants and Colloids in the Environment presents the proceedings of the General Meeting of the German Colloid Society (Kolloid-Gesellschaft) held at the Research Center of Jülich (KFA), FRG, in 1993. The volume emphasizes the importance of colloid chemistry in environmental …
Aqueous lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs) comprise a class of ordered morphologies formed by self-assembly of amphiphiles in water. LLCs assume a variety of concentration- and temperature-dependent structures including lamellae (bilayers), bicontinuous networks, hexagonally-packe…
In-situ foaming the injection gas for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) can improve the volumetric sweep efficiency of the gas phase and reduce gas channeling and viscous fingering in the oil reservoirs with permeability contrast. However, the success of foam displacement in porous me…
Capillary electrophoresis (CE) is a separation technique based on the differential migration of charged species in an electric field. The separation of proteins is not always possible since they tend to adsorb onto the capillary surface. Herein, cationic surfactants are employed…
Understanding of extensional flow mechanism is utmost important for the efficient operation of many industrial processing such as fiber spinning, extrusion, injection molding, and electrospinning, particularly if these involve non-Newtonian fluids such as polymer fluids, gels, f…
Films of phospholipids and biologically relevant surfactants at the air-water interface provide a well-defined medium to study molecular alignment, phase behavior and interactions of biomembranes and lung surfactant with exogenous materials. Interactions between lung surfactant …
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSN) are utilized by many applications due to their high surface to volume ratio, tunable pore size, low toxicology, and colloidal stability. These properties make silica nanoparticles good candidates for targeted drug delivery applications. Targ…