Engineered nanoparticles in wastewater and wastewater sludge–Evidence and impacts

SK Brar, M Verma, RD Tyagi, RY Surampalli - Waste management, 2010 - Elsevier
Nanotechnology has widespread application in agricultural, environmental and industrial
sectors ranging from fabrication of molecular assemblies to microbial array chips. Despite …

[PDF][PDF] Micellar solubilization of drugs

CO Rangel-Yagui, A Pessoa Jr, LC Tavares - J. Pharm. Pharm. Sci, 2005 - sites.ualberta.ca
PURPOSE: Micellar solubilization is a powerful alternative for dissolving hydrophobic drugs
in aqueous environments. In this work, we provide an insight into this subject. METHODS: A …

Polymer–surfactant systems in bulk and at fluid interfaces

E Guzmán, S Llamas, A Maestro… - Advances in colloid and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The interest of polymer–surfactant systems has undergone a spectacular development in the
last thirty years due to their complex behavior and their importance in different industrial …

Complex coacervate core micelles

IK Voets, A De Keizer, MAC Stuart - Advances in colloid and interface …, 2009 - Elsevier
In this review we present an overview of the literature on the co-assembly of neutral-ionic
block, graft, and random copolymers with oppositely charged species in aqueous solution …

Polyelectrolyte–surfactant complexes as a formulation tool for drug delivery

M Gradzielski - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
Aqueous polyelectrolyte–surfactant complexes (PESCs) are very rich with respect to their
properties and the structures formed by them. By design they normally contain hydrophobic …

Controlled clustering of superparamagnetic nanoparticles using block copolymers: design of new contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging

JF Berret, N Schonbeck, F Gazeau… - Journal of the …, 2006 - ACS Publications
When polyelectrolyte-neutral block copolymers are mixed in aqueous solutions with
oppositely charged species, stable complexes are found to form spontaneously. The …

Polyelectrolyte complexation

S Srivastava, MV Tirrell - Advances in chemical physics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter reviews the theoretical and experimental description of complexes and
complex‐based hybrid self‐assemblies composed of flexible polyelectrolytes, with a special …

Evaporation driven self-assembly of a colloidal dispersion during spray drying: volume fraction dependent morphological transition

D Sen, S Mazumder, JS Melo, A Khan… - Langmuir, 2009 - ACS Publications
Morphological transition of droplets during evaporation driven self-assembly of colloidal
dispersion of alumina particles has been investigated. It was found that a sphere to …

Assembly of polyelectrolyte-containing block copolymers in aqueous media

MAC Stuart, B Hofs, IK Voets, A de Keizer - Current opinion in colloid & …, 2005 - Elsevier
In this review we present an overview of the developments of (self-) assembly of linear block
copolymers containing one or more polyelectrolyte blocks in aqueous solution. Different …

DPD modelling of the self-and co-assembly of polymers and polyelectrolytes in aqueous media: Impact on polymer science

K Procházka, Z Limpouchová, M Štěpánek, K Šindelka… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
This review article is addressed to a broad community of polymer scientists. We outline and
analyse the fundamentals of the dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulation method from …