Mark Olson

Surfactants are being examined for many different fields such as chemical, medical, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical applications. Surfactants consist of two regions a hydrophobic and a hydrophilic region. The hydrophobic region is the head in most surfactants, while the hydrophilic region is the tail…

This study focuses on surfactants that contain hydrophobic tails based upon undecylenic acid and an amino acid such as alanine, S-aminobutyric acid, Norvaline and Norleucine as a hydrophilic headgroup…

: [COLL] Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry

: [COLL] Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry

: [COLL] Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry

Amphiphilic surfactants are the principal components of soaps and detergents which are responsible for their ability to lower the surface tension of water to and solubilize hydrophobic agents…

Fluorescence “turn-off” molecular sensing is a highly sensitive mechanism by which target molecules can be detected in solution…

In this study, a commercially available cationic surfactant is combined with synthesized anionic amino acid-based surfactants to examine the properties of the mixed micelle…

The purpose of this study is to develop a synthetic route and purification process for novel bifurcated amino acid- based surfactants utilizing glutamic acid as the center head group…

Surfactants are widely used for various applications including cleaning supplies, food, medicine, and energy. Due to their versatility, there has been an increasing demand for environmentally safe surfactants to replace harmful, toxic traditional surfactants…

Donor-acceptor charge transfer (CT) complexes based on the well-known π -electron deficient bipyridinium moiety have long been used in the development of stimuli-responsive materials…