Copy of: The origins of Biosurfactant self synergy

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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 observed that like their synthetic counterparts these molecules self assemble into liquid crystalline like structures and the aim of this work is to progress towards understanding the way that the molecular architecture drives this mesostructure formation.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.82368933
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/82368933
Provenance
Creator Dr Radka Petkova; Dr Peixun Li; Dr John Webster; Professor Jeffery Penfold; Dr Andrew Burley; Dr Rebecca Welbourn; 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 2016-09-23T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-09-25T08:00:00Z