Surfactant based remediation technologies for organic contaminated soil and water
(groundwater or surface water) is of increasing importance recently. Surfactants are used to …

The design and development of chemical routes with fascinating physicochemical attributes
comprise a major field of research in enhanced oil recovery (EOR).'Dimerization'depicts a …

The first reports on gemini surfactants concerned bisquaternary ammonium halide
surfactants. Their biological activity in aqueous solution was studied [13, 16, 17], and …

Gemini surfactants have been the subject of intensive scrutiny by virtue of their unique
combination of physical and chemical properties and being used in ordinary household …

Geminicationic surfactants are compounds which are composed of two hydrophilic head
groups and two hydrophobic tails linked by a spacer at the head groups or closed to them …

Faster spontaneous imbibition in ultra-low permeability reservoirs ensures higher
productivity. Surfactants can promote spontaneous imbibition by creating a strong water-wet …

The rheology of oil-in-water (O/W) droplet interfaces stabilized by food-grade emulsifiers
(soy lecithin or Tween 20) under controlled aqueous conditions was investigated to …

In the recent years, many efforts have been carried out trying to comprehend how surfactants
and salts interact among each other at the oil/brine interface to reduce the interfacial tension …

Zwitterionic heterogemini surfactants with two hydrocarbon chains and two different
hydrophilic groups, N, N-dimethyl-N-[2-(N '-alkyl-N '-β-carboxypropanoylamino) ethyl]-1 …

A series of novel di-hydroxyl-sulfate-betaine-type zwitterionic gemini surfactants of 1, 2-bis
[N-ethyl-N-(2-hydroxyl-3-sulfopropyl)-alkylammonium] alkyl betaines (DBAs–n, where s and …