Gemini surfactants consist of two cationic monomers of a surfactant linked together with a
spacer. The specific structure of a cationic gemini surfactant is the reason for both its high …

Gemini surfactants are a group of novel surfactants with more than one hydrophilic head
group and hydrophobic tail group linked by a spacer at or near the head groups. Unique …

The discovery and design of small organic molecules capable of gelling aqueous solvents
(hydrogelators) is a rapidly expanding area of research, in particular due to their possible …

Amphiphilic molecules, of which soap is a typical example, possess antagonistic hydrophilic
and hydrophobic moieties in the same molecule. Carbohydrate amphiphiles, commonly …

Dimeric (gemini) surfactants are made up of two amphiphilic moieties connected at the level
of, or very close to, the head groups by a spacer group of varying nature: hydrophilic or …

The first reports on gemini surfactants concerned bisquaternary ammonium halide
surfactants. Their biological activity in aqueous solution was studied [13, 16, 17], and …

Gemini cationic surfactants (GS) are constructed from two alkylammonium monomeric salts
linked by a spacer. They have both excellent surface, biocidal and anticorrosive properties …

In the miniaturization of manufactured goods, the practical limits of what can be achieved
when engineering from the “top down” are being approached.(1-9) Despite the continuing …

Cyclodextrins are able to act as host molecules in supramolecular chemistry with
applications ranging from pharmaceutics to detergency. Among guest molecules surfactants …

In this review, we report the most important contributions in the structure, synthesis,
physicochemical (surface adsorption, aggregation and phase behaviour) and biological …