Current perspective of sustainable surfactants based on renewable building blocks

A Bhadani, A Kafle, T Ogura, M Akamatsu… - Current Opinion in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Surfactants are active or essential ingredient of several industrial and consumer
formulations. These amphiphilic organic molecules demonstrate unique ability to adsorb at …

Development of smart viscoelastic surfactants and its applications in fracturing fluid: A review

W Kang, SJ Mushi, H Yang, P Wang, X Hou - Journal of Petroleum Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
For the past decade, hydraulic fracturing has been an effective way of stimulating low-
permeable reservoirs to increase hydrocarbon productivity. The development of clean and …

Heads or tails? The synthesis, self-assembly, properties and uses of betaine and betaine-like surfactants

VT Kelleppan, JP King, CSG Butler, AP Williams… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Betaines are a key class of zwitterionic surfactant that exhibit particularly favorable
properties, making them indispensable in modern formulation. Due to their composition …

Aqueous‐Phase Synthesis of Mesoporous Zr‐Based MOFs Templated by Amphoteric Surfactants

K Li, S Lin, Y Li, Q Zhuang, J Gu - Angewandte Chemie, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Zr‐based mesoporous metal–organic frameworks (mesoMOFs) with uniform mesochannels
and crystallized microporous framework were constructed in a water‐based system using …

Performance and characteristics of the BILBY time-of-flight small-angle neutron scattering instrument

A Sokolova, AE Whitten, L de Campo… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - journals.iucr.org
BILBY is a recently constructed and commissioned time-of-flight small-angle neutron
scattering instrument, operated by the Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering at the …

Constructing ordered and tunable extrinsic porosity in covalent organic frameworks via water-mediated soft-template strategy

N He, Y Zou, C Chen, M Tan, Y Zhang, X Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
As one of the most attractive methods for the synthesis of ordered hierarchically porous
crystalline materials, the soft-template method has not appeared in covalent organic …

Review on high-temperature-resistant viscoelastic surfactant fracturing fluids: state-of-the-art and perspectives

J Liu, P Liu, J Du, Q Wang, X Chen, L Zhao - Energy & Fuels, 2023 - ACS Publications
A viscoelastic surfactant (VES) fluid is an important part of a water-based fracturing fluid. As
oil and gas exploration expands into deep, high-temperature, low-permeability reservoirs …

Gradual transformation of anionic/zwitterionic wormlike micelles from viscous to elastic domains: Unravelling the effect of anionic surfactant chain length

S Lu, J Dong, X Li - Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Ultra-long tailed zwitterionic surfactants often form aqueous wormlike elastic
micelles, whereas the shorter ones mainly exhibit spherical viscous micelles. Anionic …

The effects of small molecule organic additives on the self-assembly and rheology of betaine wormlike micellar fluids

TM McCoy, JP King, JE Moore, VT Kelleppan… - Journal of colloid and …, 2019 - Elsevier
A model zwitterionic surfactant, oleyl amidopropyl betaine (OAPB), that spontaneously forms
viscoelastic wormlike micelles in aqueous solution is mixed with a variety of structurally …

Viscoelasticity and microstructural properties of zwitterionic surfactant induced by hydroxybenzoate salt for fracturing

SJ Mushi, W Kang, H Yang, P Wang, X Hou - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2020 - Elsevier
The viscoelasticity and microstructural behaviors of wormlike micelles (WLMs) solutions
induced by different organic salts are interesting. However, the influence of different …