ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

Controlling Biosurfactant self assembly in solution.

Abstract: Biosurfactants are becoming more commonplace in pharmaceuticals, vaccines and other forms of medicines. With the biobased economy growing substantially and pressure to reduce reliance on palm and crude oil derived materials, it is vital that the Home and Personal Care industry develops frameworks for deploying sustainably sourced alternative materials. Biosurfactants tend to be very similar to nonionic and mild anionic surfactants but with significantly higher molecular weights, generally more than double that of the most commonly used conventional surfactants. We have observed that like their synthetic counterparts these molecules self assemble into liquid crystalline like structures and the aim of this work is to progress towards understanding the way that the molecular architecture drives this mesostructure formation.

Principal Investigator: Dr Ian Tucker
Experimenter: Professor Jeffery Penfold
Experimenter: Dr Peixun Li
Experimenter: Dr Andrew Burley
Experimenter: Dr John Webster
Local Contact: Dr Diego Alba Venero
Experimenter: Dr Radka Petkova

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1620131

ISIS Experiment Number: RB1620131

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

Data format: RAW/Nexus
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