Novel Surfactants: Latest Advances and Prospects

Dear Colleagues,

Applied nanotechnology has experienced tremendous advances over the last decade. Surfactants are surface-active agents that minimize the surface tension, exhibiting wide industrial applications within the field of pharmaceutical products, agrochemicals, cosmetics or detergency. They can form colloidal suspensions that contain structured nanosized systems called nanoemulsions, nanoliposomes or nanofluids. The optimization of the methods used for the production of nanosystems is of great interest, as well as its applications in chemical, physical, pharmaceutical, biomedical, and environmental fields.

In the field of detergency, detergents must be increasingly stable and respectful of the environment, including all the requirements to acquire the eco-label, so that increasingly more enzymes or probiotics are immobilized in structures that include nanoparticles.

The objective of this issue is to disseminate the latest advances and prospects where these nanostructures are being used. The required articles can be oriented both in basic research topics, as well as in industrial uses or applications where these nanosystems are being studied.

The scope of this Special Issue is to show how the use of the nanotechnology tool kit offers opportunities and provides solutions to challenges involving a wide range of disciplines.

We strongly encourage investigators from all areas of nanotechnology and nanochemistry to join this Special Issue and to submit manuscripts.

Prof. Encarnación Jurado Alameda
Dr. Jose Maria Vicaria 
Guest Editors

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