Hydraulic fracturing integrates key technologies assisting in the establishment, increase,
and stabilization of gas and oil production. In particular, the performance of the working …

Betaines are a key class of zwitterionic surfactant that exhibit particularly favorable
properties, making them indispensable in modern formulation. Due to their composition …

Advanced switchable molecules and materials have shown great potential in numerous
applications. These novel materials can express different states of physicochemical …

Ionic liquid surfactants (ILSs) have shown increasing promise for substituting the traditional
amphiphiles because of their flexible tunability and advantageous physicochemical …

Smart surfactant wormlike micelles (SWLMs), responsive to external stimuli, are a
particularly recent area of development, yet highly promising, given the versatility of the …

An erucic acid-based anionic surfactant, AdEr, was synthesized by a simple neutralization
reaction, and AdEr constructed a novel pH-responsive wormlike micellar viscoelastic system …

A combination of viscoelastic surfactants with nanoparticles gives a new class of functional
self-assembled materials promising for a large variety of applications. Nanoparticles …

As a leftover of grease processing, the efficient utilization of erucic acid is still a challenge.
An alternative strategy is to develop erucic acid-derived surfactants. However, erucic acid …

Wormlike surfactant micelles are widely used in various applications including fracturing
technology in oil industry, template synthesis of different nanoobjects, micellar …

Rheological properties of aqueous solutions of long-tailed cationic surfactant erucyl bis-
(hydroxyethyl) methylammonium chloride (EHAC) were examined as a function of …