1st Edition

Surfactant Science and Technology Retrospects and Prospects

Edited By Laurence S. Romsted Copyright 2014
594 Pages 296 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

593 Pages 296 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

593 Pages
by CRC Press

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 Technology: Retrospects and Prospects , " a Festschrift in honor of Dr. Kash Mittal," provides a broad... Read more

Part I Theory of Self-Assembly and Ion-Specific Effects

One Hundred Years of Micelles: Evolution of the Theory of Micellization
Ramanathan Nagarajan

Ionic Surfactants and Ion-Specific Effects: Adsorption, Micellization, and Thin Liquid Films
Radomir I. Slavchov, Stoyan I. Karakashev, and Ivan B. Ivanov

Part II Surfactants at Solid–Liquid Interfaces

Wettability of Solid-Supported Lipid Layers
E. Chibowski, Malgorzata Jurak, and Lucyna Holysz

Surfactant Adsorption Layers at Liquid Interfaces
R. Miller, V.B. Fainerman, V. Pradines, V.I. Kovalchuk, N.M. Kovalchuk, E.V. Aksenenko, L. Liggieri, F. Ravera, G. Loglio, A. Sharipova, Y. Vysotsky, D. Vollhardt, N. Mucic, R. Wüstneck, J. Krägel, and A. Javadi

Wetting and Spreading by Aqueous Surfactant Solutions
Natalia Ivanova and Victor M. Starov

Wetting Instabilities in Langmuir–Blodgett Film Deposition
V.I. Kovalchuk, E.K. Zholkovskiy, M.P. Bondarenko, and D. Vollhardt

Interfacial Studies of Coffee-Based Beverages: From Flavor Perception to Biofuels
Michele Ferrari, Francesca Ravera, Libero Liggieri, and Luciano Navarini

Part III Polymeric Surfactants and Polymer/Surfactant Mixtures

DNA Release from Cross-Linked DNA Gels and DNA Gel Particles
M. Carmen Morán, Diana Costa, M. Graça Miguel, and Björn Lindman

Advances in Poly(Amino Acid)s–Based Amphiphilic Graft Polymers and Their Biomedical Applications
Chan Woo Park, Hee-Man Yang, Se Rim Yoon, and Jong-Duk Kim

Polymeric Surfactants and Some of Their Applications
Tharwat Tadros

Part IV Biosurfactants

Biosurfactants
Girma Biresaw

Microbially Derived Biosurfactants: Sources, Design, and Structure-Property Relationships
P. Somasundaran, P. Patra, D.J. Albino, and I.M. Nambi

Part V Formulation and Application of Surfactant Aggregates

Triggered Drug Release Using Lyotropic Liquid Crystals as Delivery Vehicles
Dima Libster, Abraham Aserin, and Nissim Garti

Pharmaceutical Microemulsions and Drug Delivery
Maung Win, Paul Lang, Manu Vashishtha, and D.O. Shah

Hydrotropes: Structure and Function
Krister Holmberg

Surfactant Ionic Liquids: Potential Structured Reaction Media?
Paul Brown, Craig Butts, and Julian Eastoe

Stimuli-Responsive Surfactants: History and Applications
John Texter

Part VI Formulation and Application of Emulsions

Progress in Designing Emulsion Properties Over a Century: Emerging Phenomenological Guidelines from Generalized Formulation and Prospects to Transmute the Knowledge into Know-How
Jean-Louis Salager, Ana Forgiarini, and Johnny Bullón

An Overview of Surfactants in Enhanced Oil Recovery
Paulina M. Mwangi and Dandina N. Rao

Soil Removal by Surfactants during Cleaning Processes
Clarence A. Miller

Biography

Laurence (Larry) S. Romsted, Ph.D., is a chemistry professor at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in Piscataway. He has published 92 papers using physical organic chemistry methods to probe properties of association colloids, and he has given about 90 invited talks at international meetings and another 90 university seminars. In 1991, he published what proved to be a singularly important paper in Accounts of Chemical Research, "Ion Binding and Reactivity at Charged Aqueous Interfaces," that spread the pseudophase model for micellar catalysis to the world.