Surfactants and Self-Assembly Systems
Personnel - Professor Eastoe.
- development of colloidal dispersions in supercritical fluids and liquid carbon dioxide - involving design and synthesis of novel CO2 compatible surfactants
- polymerisable self-assembled phases for nanochemistry and templating
- the use of metal-ion surfactant micelles to grow nanoparticles
- optimization of surfactant chemical structure and composition of mixtures
- sugar and natural surfactants - structural, equilibrium and dynamic properties
- interfacial adsorption kinetics
- phospholipids in biocompatible microemulsions
- polyrotaxanes - how and why do these supramolecular structures form?