Popping bubbles: Surfactants have surprising effect on nanobubble stability Tiny bubbles may have complex breaking mechanisms dependent on their surrounding solution ...

Surfactants have become a flexible and diverse class of fine chemical products due to their physical and chemical effects such as wetting or anti-sticking, emulsification or demulsification, foaming ...

Aqueous solutions represent a critical platform for a variety of chemical and biological processes. Within these systems, hydrotropy—a phenomenon whereby small amphiphilic molecules, known as ...

With several surfactants to choose from, the biopharma industry is still working to identify the most effective, environmentally friendly alternatives to the surfactant Triton X-100 (TX-100).

Protein Discovery, Inc. has announced the commercial introduction of PPS Silent™ Surfactant, an acid-cleavable detergent for cell membrane disruption and protein solubilization. PPS Silent Surfactant ...

The stability of nanobubbles is well understood, but the mechanisms causing their eventual destabilization are still in question. Using molecular dynamics simulations, researchers in China ...

They report their findings on the surprising mechanisms of destabilization for both soluble and insoluble surfactants this week in Applied Physics Letters ("How nanobubbles lose stability: Effects of ...