Functional supramolecular systems: Design and applications

IS Antipin, MV Alfimov, VV Arslanov… - Russian Chemical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The interest in functional supramolecular systems for the design of innovative materials and
technologies, able to fundamentally change the world, is growing at a high pace. The huge …

Are microbial biosurfactants actually only surfactants?

N Baccile - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The term biosurfactants is refers to a complex mixture of metabolites with surface-active
properties produced by specific microorganisms. However, nowadays trends moves towards …

Chameleonic amphiphile: The unique multiple self-assembly properties of a natural glycolipid in excess of water

N Baccile, A Poirier, C Seyrig, P Le Griel… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Chameleons are stunning reptiles which change colour according to the surrounding
environment. In astrophysics, chameleons are particles whose mass varies in the …

A novel surfactant material for performance enhancement on nucleate pool boiling heat transfer

J Luo, H Yang - International Communications in Heat and Mass …, 2023 - Elsevier
Long-chain surfactants have been extensively studied for boiling enhancement, while the
investigation of steroid surfactants is limited. In this study, steroidal bile salts were …

Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy to Probe Hydrogels Formed by Sodium Deoxycholate

P Li, C Malveau, XX Zhu, JD Wuest - Langmuir, 2021 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels of bile acids and their salts are promising materials for drug delivery, cellular
immobilization, and other applications. However, these hydrogels are poorly understood at …

Modulation of mechanical properties of low molecular weight supramolecular hydrogels of calcium cholate by drugs of varying hydrophobicity: Effect on drug release …

S Sidiq, G Ahanger, N Nazir, MI Zargar… - Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
Bile salt based low-molecular-weight supramolecular hydrogels (LMWSH) serve as an
appealing framework for drug delivery applications, owing to their natural origin …

Multifunctional properties of commercial bile salts for advanced materials engineering

K Baker, R Sikkema, W Liang… - Advanced Engineering …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Applications of bile acids (BAs) and bile salts (BSs) in the nanotechnology of functional
materials are described. The exceptionally strong solubilization and dispersion power of …

Self-Healing Hydrogel Resulting from the Noncovalent Interaction between Ropivacaine and Low-Molecular-Weight Gelator Sodium Deoxycholate Achieves Stable …

X Tan, Y Zhou, Y Qin, L Wu, R Yang… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Regional analgesia based on the local anesthetic ropivacaine plays a crucial role in
postoperative pain management and recovery; however, the short duration of analgesia …

Determining sequential micellization steps of bile salts with multi-CMC modeling

D Rovnyak, J He, S Kong, KW Eckenroad… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Bile salts exhibit complex concentration-dependent micellization in aqueous
solution, rooted in a long-standing hypothesis of increasing size in bile aggregation that has …

Soft lamellar solid foams from ice-templating of self-assembled lipid hydrogels: organization drives the mechanical properties

N Baccile, GB Messaoud, T Zinn, FM Fernandes - Materials Horizons, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Ice-templating, also referred to as freeze-casting, is a process exploiting the unidirectional
crystallization of ice to structure macroporous materials from colloidal solutions. Commonly …