Ali Bumajdad - Mixed Surfactant Microemulsions

Ali completed his PhD in the surfactant group in 2000. He later came back to Bristol as a visiting fellow. He is currently assistant professor at Kuwait University.

Interest: Structure and phase behaviour of water-in-oil microemulsions stabilized by single or mixed surfactants.  Also I’m interested in synthesizing nanoparticles and highly porous materials such as metal, metal oxides, and polymers, in surfactant-templated systems such as lyotropic liquid crystals, micellar systems, vesicles, and microemulsions.

Publications:

1)Mixing in cationic surfactant films studied by small-angle neutron scattering, Bumajdad, A.; Eastoe, J.; Heenan, R . K.; Lu, J. R.; Steytler, D.C.; Egelhaaf, S. J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans. 1998, 94, 2143.

2)Interfacial compositions and phase structures in mixed surfactant microemulsions, Bumajdad, A.; Eastoe, J.; Griffiths, P.; Steytler, D. C.; Heenan, R. K.; Lu, J. R.; Timmins, P. Langmuir 1999, 15, 5271.

3)Studies of cationic and non-ionic surfactant mixed microemulsions by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering and Pulsed Field Gradient NMR, Giustini, M.; Palazzo, G.; Ceglie, A.; Eastoe, J.; Bumajdad, A.; Heenan R. K. Progr. Colloid Polym. Sci. 2000, 115, 25.

4)Mixed Surfactant Microemulsions, Bumajdad, A. and Eastoe, J., Recent Research Developments in Physical Chemistry 2000, Vol. 4, Part II, 337.

5)Compositions of mixed surfactant layers in microemulsions determined by small-angle neutron scattering, Bumajdad, A.; Eastoe, J.; Steytler, D. C.; Heenan, R. K.; Timmins, P. Langmuir, 2003, 19, 2560.

6)Properties of mixed alcohol-zwitterionic surfactant films in quaternary water-in-oil microemulsions, Bumajdad, A.; Eastoe, J.; Heenan, R. K. Langmuir, 2003, 19, 7225.

7)Conductivity of mixed surfactant water-in-oil microemulsions, Bumajdad, A.; Eastoe, J. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2004, 6, 1597.