Surfactants: Recent advances and their applications

SM Shaban, J Kang, DH Kim - Composites communications, 2020 - Elsevier
Surfactants have been widely used in many industrial products such as detergents,
medicines, and anti-corrosive treatments due to their unique structures consisted of two …

Ionic liquids and organic salts with antimicrobial activity as a strategy against resistant microorganisms

FMS Costa, MLMFS Saraiva, MLC Passos - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2022 - Elsevier
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a subject of growing concern facing humanity caused
mainly by the overuse and misuse of antimicrobials, lack of adherence to antimicrobial …

Smart, photothermally activated, antibacterial surfaces with thermally triggered bacteria-releasing properties

Y Wang, T Wei, Y Qu, Y Zhou, Y Zheng… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The development of effective antibacterial surfaces to prevent the attachment of pathogenic
bacteria and subsequent bacterial colonization and biofilm formation is critically important …

Magnetic surfactants: A review of recent progress in synthesis and applications

F Shehzad, SMS Hussain, AA Adewunmi… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Magnetic surfactants are a special class of surfactants with magneto-responsive properties.
These surfactants possess lower critical micelle concentrations and are more effective in …

Magnetoresponsive biocomposite hydrogels comprising gelatin and valine based magnetic ionic liquid surfactant as controlled release nanocarrier for drug delivery

A Kulshrestha, S Sharma, K Singh, A Kumar - Materials Advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The utilization of biopolymer hydrogels has been challenging due to the lack of
controllability, actuation, and quick-response properties. Herein, we report a strategic …

Coatable and resistance-proof ionic liquid for pathogen eradication

MDT Torres, S Voskian, P Brown, A Liu, TK Lu… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria infect close to 3 million people, and kill 35,000, each year in the
United States. Ionic liquid (IL)-based antimicrobial agents have the potential to diversify our …

Oxidation of sulfonamides by ferrate (VI): Reaction kinetics, transformation byproducts and toxicity assesment

A Acosta-Rangel, M Sánchez-Polo, M Rozalen… - Journal of environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study was aimed at the degradation of sulfonamides (SNs) via oxidation with Fe (VI).
The reaction kinetics, identification of degradation byproducts and their toxicity were …

Electropolymerization of pyrrole-tailed imidazolium ionic liquid for the elaboration of antibacterial surfaces

HB Halima, T Zwingelstein, V Humblot… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A strategy was developed to prepare antibacterial surfaces by electropolymerization of a
pyrrole-functionalized imidazolium ionic liquid bearing an halometallate anion. The …

Paramagnetic surface active ionic liquids: synthesis, properties, and applications

A Kulshrestha, PS Gehlot, A Kumar - Materials Today Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Paramagnetic surface active ionic liquids (PMSAILs) classify task-specific ionic liquids with
magnetic properties by incorporating metal into the cationic or anionic part of the ionic liquid …

Magnetic proline-based ionic liquid surfactant as a nano-carrier for hydrophobic drug delivery

A Kulshrestha, PS Gehlot, A Kumar - Journal of materials chemistry B, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Magnetic proline-based surface-active ionic liquid ([ProC10][FeCl3Br]) have been
synthesized and investigated for their application in hydrophobic drug delivery. Hydrophobic …