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Addressing Challenges in the Ultrafiltration of Biomolecules from Complex Aqueous Environments
Publication date: Available online 12 March 2020Source: Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface ScienceAuthor(s): Emre Bukusoglu, Harun Koku, P. Zeynep Culfaz-Emecen (Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science)
Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science - March 14, 2020 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

progress in measurements of oscillatory forces and liquid properties under confinement
Publication date: Available online 13 March 2020Source: Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface ScienceAuthor(s): Michael Ludwig, Regine von Klitzing (Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science)
Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science - March 14, 2020 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Microfluidic Lab-on-Chip Advances for Liquid-Liquid Extraction Process Studies
Publication date: Available online 12 March 2020Source: Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface ScienceAuthor(s): Ange Maurice, Johannes Theisen, Jean-Christophe P. Gabriel (Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science)
Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science - March 13, 2020 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Protein-polysaccharide interactions and aggregates in food formulations
Publication date: Available online 12 March 2020Source: Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface ScienceAuthor(s): Luigi Gentile (Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science)
Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science - March 13, 2020 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Forces, structures and ion mobility in nanometer-to-subnanometer extreme spatial confinements: Electrochemisty and ionic liquids
Publication date: Available online 5 March 2020Source: Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface ScienceAuthor(s): Hsiu-Wei Cheng, Markus Valtiner (Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science)
Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science - March 5, 2020 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Hydrogel design strategies for drug delivery
Publication date: Available online 24 February 2020Source: Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface ScienceAuthor(s): Cécile A. Dreiss (Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science)
Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science - February 26, 2020 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Reactive crystallization: from mixing to control of kinetics by additives
Publication date: Available online 18 February 2020Source: Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface ScienceAuthor(s): Sébastien Teychené, Isaac Rodriguez-Ruiz, Raj Kumar RamamoorthyAbstractThe study of the mechanisms laying underneath reactive crystallization is a key subject in a myriad of natural and industrial processes. Here, control on particle nucleation and growth are active topics of research, in which important advances can be highlighted within the last years. While novel mechanisms for crystal nucleation have been recently unveiled, the effects of reagent mixing process and timescales on them, together with the ...
Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science - February 20, 2020 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Current Perspective of Sustainable Surfactants Based on Renewable Building Blocks
Publication date: Available online 17 February 2020Source: Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface ScienceAuthor(s): Avinash Bhadani, Ananda Kafle, Taku Ogura, Masaaki Akamatsu, Kenichi Sakai, Hideki Sakai, Masahiko AbeAbstractSurfactants are active or essential ingredient of several industrial and consumer formulations. These amphiphilic organic molecules demonstrate unique ability to adsorb at interface and self-aggregate or self-assemble into different phases in aqueous or non-aqueous solution. In recent years, environmental concerns coupled with increased consumer awareness have guided substantial growth of environmenta...
Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science - February 18, 2020 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Nanoscale wear of hard materials: An overview
This article presents an overview on the actual knowledge of the fundamentals of hard materials wear mechanisms, focused in the phenomenology that occurs from the atomic scales upto the scale of some tens of nanometres, aiming to contribute to bridge this gap of comprehension involving the wear at nanometric scales. (Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science)
Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science - February 14, 2020 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Erratic ions: self-assembly and coassembly of ions of nanometer size and of irregular structure
Publication date: February 2020Source: Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, Volume 45Author(s): Pavel MatějíčekAbstractThe solution behavior of some ions resembles that of surfactants. The aim of this review is to contextualize the behavior of ions with uneven structure and/or hydration shell, such as nanoions, intrinsically amphiphilic ions, and ions with irregular chemical composition. Hints regarding ionspecificity and other peculiar features of less conventional ions are discussed. Such ions can exhibit ion pairing and like-charge self-assembly, thus resembling amphiphilic molecules. Irregular ions and na...
Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science - January 29, 2020 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

The curious case of 12-hydroxystearic acid — the Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde of molecular gelators
Publication date: February 2020Source: Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, Volume 45Author(s): Anne-Laure Fameau, Michael A. RogersAbstractA comprehensive review of the features driving self-assembly of 12-hydroxystearic acid (12-HSA), a low-molecular-weight gelator, and its applications in drug delivery and as other soft innovative materials are presented herein. 12-HSA is obtained via hydrogenation of ricinoleic acid naturally found in high concentrations in castor oil. The ability of 12-HSA to self-assemble is associated with the presence, position, and enantiomeric purity of the hydroxy group along the fatt...
Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science - January 22, 2020 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Bioinspired synthetic wet adhesives: from permanent bonding to reversible regulation
Publication date: June 2020Source: Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, Volume 47Author(s): Shuanhong Ma, Yang Wu, Feng ZhouAbstractNowadays, robust underwater adhesives products are highly demanded both in industrial and biomedical fields. Meanwhile, study of the underwater adhesion mechanism of natural organisms under fluid environment is necessary, which provides inspiration for engineering adhesive materials that can be used in wet environment. Scientists are committed to discovering the unique adhesion mechanisms of protein adhesives for natural organisms. Especially, recent understanding of wet adhesion m...
Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science - January 22, 2020 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Rational design, properties, and applications of biosurfactants: a short review of recent advances
Publication date: February 2020Source: Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, Volume 45Author(s): Kang Liu, Yawei Sun, Meiwen Cao, Jiqian Wang, Jian R. Lu, Hai XuAbstractBiosurfactants combine physicochemical properties with biological activities. Although biosurfactants are often expressed by microorganisms, an increasing amount is produced by chemical synthesis. As many exist in the form of homologous compounds, it is often difficult to purify biosurfactants. But this has not limited the efforts to develop their commercial applications. In this short review, we have featured the recent advances in three importan...
Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science - January 20, 2020 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Nonspecific interactions in biomedical applications
Publication date: June 2020Source: Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, Volume 47Author(s): Vahid Adibnia, Marziye Mirbagheri, Sina Salimi, Gregory De Crescenzo, Xavier BanquyAbstractNonspecific interactions play a major role in the microscale functioning of biological units. Exploiting these interactions in design and application of biomedical systems has been beneficial in different branches of biomedicine. In this review, recently designed biomedical systems that function mainly, or partially, based on nonspecific interactions, including but not limited to electrostatic, hydrophobic, and steric interactions, ...
Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science - January 20, 2020 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research

Nano-scale wear of hard materials: an overview
Publication date: Available online 18 January 2020Source: Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface ScienceAuthor(s): R. Colaço, A.P. SerroAbstractWear of nano/microelectromechanical systems (NEMS/MEMS) involves a limited number of superficial atomic layers. In larger components, where tolerances and surface roughness are usually quite small, wear also occurs essentially in a narrow near-surface region, with no more than few hundreds nanometers. Therefore, in general, macromechanical approaches to wear are not strictly applicable. In spite of the increasing effort, which has been made in the last two decades in this research...
Source: Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science - January 18, 2020 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research