Heads or tails? The synthesis, self-assembly, properties and uses of betaine and betaine-like surfactants

VT Kelleppan, JP King, CSG Butler, AP Williams… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Betaines are a key class of zwitterionic surfactant that exhibit particularly favorable
properties, making them indispensable in modern formulation. Due to their composition …

A comparative investigation of the effect of gas type on foam strength and flow behavior in tight carbonates

AS Hanamertani, S Saraji, M Piri - Chemical Engineering Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Foam generation technique has been practically applied to overcome gas mobility issue
during enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes. Incorporated with the utilized gas, the …

Size-tunable CaCO3@ n-eicosane phase-change microcapsules for thermal energy storage

M Chen, Z Qian, H Liu, X Wang - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Phase-change materials can store and release tremendous amounts of latent heat energy in
a single storage unit, and they have become a promising candidate for building comfort …

Foam-Assisted Hydrocarbon Gas Injection in Oil-Wet Fractured Carbonate: In Situ Investigation of Fracture–Matrix Interactions

AS Hanamertani, AI Mohamed, S Saraji… - Transport in Porous Media, 2024 - Springer
The success of foam-induced flow diversion in fractured carbonates hinges on proper
injection strategies, requiring an in-depth understanding of the factors responsible for …

Quantum Dot Biomimetic for SARS-CoV-2 to Interrogate Blood–Brain Barrier Damage Relevant to NeuroCOVID Brain Inflammation

W Chiang, A Stout, F Yanchik-Slade, H Li… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Despite limited evidence for infection of SARS-CoV-2 in the central nervous system,
cognitive impairment is a common complication reported in “recovered” COVID-19 patients …

Effect of pH on the structure and properties of pesticide intercalated into montmorillonite modified by zwitterionic surfactant

X Zhang, C Liu, J Liu - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract DCB (OA, DSB, SB)-MMT complexes were prepared by incorporating zwitterionic
surfactants dodecyl dimethyl carboxylbetaine (DCB), N, N-dimethyldodecylamine N-oxide …

Droplet migration into dead-end channels at high salinity enhanced by micelle gradients of a zwitterionic surfactant

N Shi, A Abdel-Fattah - Physical Review Fluids, 2021 - APS
Direct microscopic visualization experiments are reported to quantify the diffusiophoretic
migration of oil droplets in high-salinity solutions (c> 0.7 mol/L). Contrary to usual results in …

siRNA delivery using dithiocarbamate-anchored oligonucleotides on gold nanorods

J Wang, M Thomas, P Lin, JX Cheng… - Bioconjugate …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We present a robust method for loading small interfering RNA (siRNA) duplexes onto the
surfaces of gold nanorods (GNRs) at high density, using near-infrared laser irradiation to …

Ion–micelle interactions and the modeling of reactivity in micellar solutions of simple zwitterionic sulfobetaine surfactants

GTM Silva, FH Quina - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Aqueous micellar solutions of sulfobetaine surfactants provide a simple physical–chemical
system for investigating the origin and consequences of the specific interactions of anions …

Phospholipid headgroup composition modulates the molecular interactions and antimicrobial effects of sulfobetaine zwitterionic detergents against the “ESKAPE” …

KLF Hilton, H Tolley, JL Ortega-Roldan… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We determine the efficacy for three known structurally related, membrane active detergents
against multidrug resistant and wild type strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Accessible …