Understanding and Controlling Biosurfactant self assembly in solution

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Biosurfactants are becoming more commonplace in pharmaceuticals, vaccines and other forms of medicines. With the biobased economy growing substantially and pressure to reduce reliance on palm and crude oil derived materials, it is vital that the Home and Personal Care industry develops frameworks for deploying sustainably sourced alternative materials. Biosurfactants tend to be very similar to nonionic and mild anionic surfactants but with significantly higher molecular weights, generally more than double that of the most commonly used conventional surfactants. We have explored many such glycolipids in recent times and in this proposal wish to study the solution microstructure under conditions where the glycolipid self assembles into liquid crystalline like structures. Understanding the shear dependence of the mesophase behaviour is important precursor to commercialisation.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.79108120
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/79108120
Provenance
Creator Dr Radka Petkova; Dr Ann Terry; Dr James Doutch; Dr Andrew Burley; Dr John Webster; Dr Peixun Li; Professor Jeffery Penfold; Dr Ian Tucker
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Biology; Biomaterials; Chemistry; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-05-11T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-05-13T08:00:00Z