3 papers
cond-mat.soft2021
pH Switchable Pickering Emulsions Stabilized by Polyelectrolyte Biosurfactant Complex Coacervate Colloids
Sandrine Laquerbe, Alain Carvalho, Marc Schmutz +3
Polyelectrolyte-surfactant complexes (PESCs) have long been employed as oil-in-water (o/w) emulsions stabilizers, but never in the structure of colloidal complex coacervates provid…
cond-mat.soft2021
Self-Assembly, Interfacial Properties, Interactions with Macromolecules and Molecular Modelling and Simulation of Microbial Bio-based Amphiphiles (Biosurfactants). A Tutorial Review
Niki Baccile, Chloé Seyrig, Alexandre Poirier +3
Chemical surfactants are omnipresent in consumers' products but they suffer from environmental concerns. For this reason, complete replacement of petrochemical surfactants by biosu…
cond-mat.soft2020
Synthesis and self-assembly of aminyl and alkynyl substituted sophorolipids
Abdoul Aziz, Jonas Everaert, Alexandre Poirier +6
Sophorolipids are one of the most important microbial biosurfactants, because of their large-scale production and applications developed so far in the fields of detergency, microbi…