Surfactant science and technology : retrospects and prospects /

Surfactant research explores the forces responsible for surfactant assembly and the critical industrial, medical, and personal applications, including viscosity control, microelectronics, drug stabilization, drug delivery, cosmetics, enhanced oil recovery, and foods. Surfactant Science and Technolog...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Romsted, Laurence (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, 2014
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Editor; Contributors; Chapter 1: One Hundred Years of Micelles : Evolution of the Theory of Micellization; Chapter 2: Ionic Surfactants and Ion-Specific Effects : Adsorption, Micellization, and Thin Liquid Films; Chapter 3: Wettability of Solid-Supported Lipid Layers; Chapter 4: Surfactant Adsorption Layers at Liquid Interfaces; Chapter 5: Wetting and Spreading by Aqueous Surfactant Solutions; Chapter 6: Wetting Instabilities in Langmuir-Blodgett Film Deposition.
  • Chapter 7: Interfacial Studies of Coffee-Based Beverages : From Flavor Perception to BiofuelsChapter 8: DNA Release from Cross-Linked DNA Gels and DNA Gel Particles; Chapter 9: Advances in Poly(amino acid)s-Based Amphiphilic Graft Polymers and Their Biomedical Applications; Chapter 10: Polymeric Surfactants and Some of Their Applications; Chapter 11: Biosurfactants; Chapter 12: Microbially Derived Biosurfactants : Sources, Design, and Structure- Property Relationships; Chapter 13: Triggered Drug Release Using Lyotropic Liquid Crystals as Delivery Vehicles.
  • Chapter 14: Pharmaceutical Microemulsions and Drug DeliveryChapter 15: Hydrotropes : Structure and Function; Chapter 16: Surfactant Ionic Liquids : Potential Structured Reaction Media?; Chapter 17: Stimuli-Responsive Surfactants : History and Applications; Chapter 18: Progress in Over a Century of Designing Emulsion Properties : Emerging Phenomenological Guidelines from Generalized Formulation and Prospects to Transmute the Knowledge into Know-How; Chapter 19: An Overview of Surfactants in Enhanced Oil Recovery; Chapter 20: Soil Removal by Surfactants during Cleaning Processes; Back Cover.