Surfactant Technologies and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical and Molecular Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2026 | Viewed by 13
Special Issue Editor
Interests: surfactant; surfactant-based products
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Research on surfactants and their technological applications is possibly one of the most important and cross-disciplinary areas in Science and Technology. Surfactants are molecules present in a wide variety of materials and are used in numerous applications that may appear very different from each other. This is due to the extraordinary properties of surfactants, which make them useful, for example, in the formulation of detergent products, in mineral recovery or in saving the lives of newborns suffering from respiratory distress syndrome.
For all these reasons, this Special Issue will include research and review articles related to surfactants from any scientific or technological field in which they are used. Papers on surfactants in the following areas are welcome:
- Household and consumer industry
- Detergents and soaps
- Personal hygiene products
- Cosmetics
- Pharmaceutical and biomedical industry
- Drug formulation
- Controlled release systems
- Disinfectants and antiseptics
- Pulmonary surfactants
- Petrochemical industry
- Enhanced oil recovery
- Demulsification
- Additives for fuels and lubricants
- Formulation of drilling and fracking fluids
- Industrial processes and materials
- Textiles
- Paints and coatings
- Mineral flotation
- Environment
- Wastewater treatment
- Remediation of contaminated soils
- Nanotechnology and materials science
- Synthesis of nanoparticles
- Formation of micelles and vesicles for catalysis, encapsulation and controlled release of compounds
- Fabrication of porous materials
- Energy and electrochemistry
- Solar cells and batteries
- Biofuel production
- Agriculture and agroindustry
- Pesticides and herbicides
- Liquid fertilizers
- Foam control in agro-industrial processes
- Medicine and advanced biotechnology
- Formulation of vaccines and biotherapeutics
- Biotechnological purification processes
- Gene therapies and liposomes
- Sustainability
- Biosurfactants
- Control of oil spills
- Gas scrubbing processes
- Emerging and high-technology applications
- 3D printing and functional coatings
- Medical devices and biomaterials
- Smart foams and fluids (metallic foams, ferrofluids)
This extensive list is not limited, as articles related to any technological aspect of surfactants are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Rafael Bailón-Moreno
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- surfactant
- surfactants and household industry
- surfactants and pharmaceutical industry
- surfactants and petrochemical industry
- surfactants and environment
- surfactant and agriculture
- surfactants and biotechnology
- surfactants and nanotechnology
- surfactant and sustainability
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