Biosurfactant conventional surfactant mixing. Where nature does it better ?

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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. By means of studying the structure of the adsorbed layer of biosurfactant conventional surfactant mixtures, in this case using Saponins we hope to gain understanding which can aid in the expansion of the use of these materials towards commodity products.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.58450444
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/58450444
Provenance
Creator Mr Matthew Evans; Dr John Webster; Professor Jeffery Penfold; Dr Ian Tucker; Dr Nico Paracini; Dr Peixun Li; Dr Andrew Burley; Dr Radka Petkova
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
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 2015-03-26T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-03-28T09:00:00Z