The difficulties associated with transportation and refining of crude oil emulsions and
produced water discharge limitations are among the conspicuous clues that have led the …

Oil–water emulsions are widely generated in industries, which may facilitate some
processes (eg, transportation of heavy oil, storage of milk, synthesis of chemicals or …

Vesicles consisting of a bilayer membrane of amphiphilic lipid molecules are remarkably
flexible surfaces that show an amazing variety of shapes of different symmetry and topology …

Mechanical oil recovery (ie, booming and skimming) is the most common tool for oil spill
response. The recovered fluid generated from skimming processes may contain a …

The design and synthesis of protein-like polymers is a fundamental challenge in materials
science. A biomimetic approach is to explore the impact of monomer sequence on non …

There are a number of methods that can be used for the preparation of enzyme-containing
lipid vesicles (liposomes) which are lipid dispersions that contain water-soluble enzymes in …

A model that makes use of the cooperative organization of inorganic and organic molecular
species into three dimensionally structured arrays is generalized for the synthesis of …

It is commonly known that cationic and anionic surfactants cannot be mixed without the risk
of precipitation or instability. However, many studies have shown that not only is it possible …

Self-assembly in mixtures of cationic and anionic surfactants occurs synergistically because
of attractive interactions between the oppositely charged headgroups. Here, such effects are …

Strong electrostatic interactions between the oppositely charged head groups of cationic
and anionic surfactants in aqueous mixtures provide an added degree of flexibility in …