Surface Active Agents and Their Health-Promoting Properties: Molecules of Multifunctional Significance [PDF]
Pharmaceutics, 2020 Surface active agents (SAAs) are molecules with the capacity to adsorb to solid surfaces and/or fluid interfaces, a property that allows them to act as multifunctional ingredients (e.g., wetting and dispersion agents, emulsifiers, foaming and anti ...
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Marine-Derived Surface Active Agents: Health-Promoting Properties and Blue Biotechnology-Based Applications [PDF]
Biomolecules, 2020 Surface active agents are characterized for their capacity to adsorb to fluid and solid-water interfaces. They can be classified as surfactants and emulsifiers based on their molecular weight (MW) and properties.
Ioannis Anestopoulos +15 more
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Occurrence of Surface Active Agents in the Environment [PDF]
Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry, 2014 Due to the specific structure of surfactants molecules they are applied in different areas of human activity (industry, household). After using and discharging from wastewater treatment plants as effluent stream, surface active agents (SAAs) are emitted ...
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Characteristics of increasing displacement efficiency by surface-active polymer flooding for enhancing oil recovery [PDF]
Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 2021 Surface-active polymer is a novel multifunctional active polymer applied for enhancing oil recovery which has both viscosity-increasing ability and surface activity.
Qiannan Yu +6 more
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Role of Surface Active Agents in Transferosome for Systemic Drug Delivery [PDF]
Al-Mustansiriyah Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesThe recent utilization of transferosomes (a type of vesicular drug-carrier system) has shown promising results in enhancing the transport of drugs through the skin when administered topically.
Mohsin Hussein Abdulameer +2 more
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Marinobacter sp. from marine sediments produce highly stable surface-active agents for combatting marine oil spills [PDF]
Microbial Cell Factories, 2017 Background The application of chemical dispersants as a response to marine oil spills is raising concerns related to their potential toxicity also towards microbes involved in oil biodegradation.
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Fast track on the surface active agents involved in nanoemulsion for drug delivery [PDF]
Al-Mustansiriyah Journal of Pharmaceutical SciencesNanoemulsions (NEs) are colloidal dispersion systems made of two immiscible liquids combined with co-surfactants and surfactants (emulsifying agents), to form a thermodynamically stable. Numerous synthetic and natural compounds with the aim of enhancing
Sara Abdullah Challoob +2 more
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Surface-Active Ionic Liquids and Surface-Active Quaternary Ammonium Salts from Synthesis, Characterization to Antimicrobial Properties [PDF]
MoleculesThe present work provides new evidence of the ongoing potential of surface-active ionic liquids (SAILs) and surface-active quaternary ammonium salts (surface-active QASs).
Marta Wojcieszak +7 more
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Surface-Active Compounds Produced by Microorganisms: Promising Molecules for the Development of Antimicrobial, Anti-Inflammatory, and Healing Agents [PDF]
, 2022 Surface-active compounds (SACs), biomolecules produced by bacteria, yeasts, and filamentous fungi, have interesting properties, such as the ability to interact with surfaces as well as hydrophobic or hydrophilic interfaces.
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MICROBIAL SURFACE-ACTIVE SUBSTANCES AS ANTIADHESIVE AGENTS [PDF]
Biotechnologia Acta, 2016 The literature data of recent years about capacity of biosurfactants synthesized by bacteria (Pseudomonas, Lactobacillus, Bacillus) and fungi (Candida, Trichosporon, Saccharomyces) not only to avert the adhesion of microorganisms on the different ...
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