In an unlikely collaboration between Skoltech's Petroleum Center and the drug delivery team from the Institute's Neuro Center, researchers have proposed new surfactants that enhance oil recovery when pumped into a well,

Pulmonary surfactant is a complex of surface-active lipids, especially dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC), and at least four specific surfactant proteins, SP-A, SP-B, SP-C and SP-D. It is synthesized in alveolar type II cells and assembled into lamellar ...

By reconstructing a non-natural metabolic route in Escherichia coli, the researchers demonstrated that simple sugars can be biologically converted into lauryl glucoside through the coordinated production of its fatty alcohol precursor and a final glycosylation step.

An engineer in California has an invention that she hopes will someday help people with damaged lungs breathe easier. Stanford University's Annelise Barron has developed a synthetic version of something called lung surfactant. Lung surfactant coats the ...

Researchers have developed a surfactant spray that counters the mosquito’s natural water-resisting properties, offering a safe and effective means of taking down mosquitoes without using insecticides. The spray could be used to protect people from the ...

Personal care is going green at a breakneck pace. While most industries, including the chemical industry, are targeting net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the consumer product brands that make soap, shampoo, lotion, and cosmetics are setting their ...

During titrations, it is crucial to select the right titrant. If the solubility of the formed compounds is lower (their oleophilic properties is greater), the potential jump of the titration curve is steeper and larger. This effect should be leveraged when ...

Researchers from the Tohoku Univerisity, Japan, and Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Germany, critically review the use of surfactant-coated nanoparticles in the fields of nanomedicine and food nanotechnology. The review, which was recently published ...

New research into graphene flakes has discovered that the material can act as a surfactant, for the first time demonstrating how it can be a versatile 2D stabilizer ideal for many industrial applications from oil extraction to paper processing. New ...

Unconventional reservoirs typically yield less than 10% oil recovery. In the Permian basin, enhanced oil recovery (EOR) schemes include CO 2 injection, huff and puff, water injection, and, to a lesser extent, surfactant injection. These secondary recovery ...