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Gemini Surfactant Application Studies

A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Chemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 March 2026 | Viewed by 4

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Department of Bioactive Products, Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, 61-614 Poznan, Poland
Interests: spectroscopy; organic synthesis; molecular interactions; surface chemistry; microbiocide chemistry; betaines; corrosion inhibition

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Department of Bioactive Compounds, Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 8, 61-614 Poznan, Poland
Interests: organic synthesis; molecular interactions; surface chemistry; microbiocide chemistry; smart materials; corrosion inhibition; environmental chemistry
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Dear Colleagues,

Emerging gemini surfactants have a unique dimeric architecture and superior physicochemical and biological properties. Gemini surfactants with a wide range of hydrophilic–lipophilic balance (HLB) are extremely useful as an innovative material in chemistry (contributing to corrosion inhibition, micellar catalysis, nanoparticle synthesis, the preparation of supramolecular solvents, preparation of nanoemulsions, synthesis of precisely defined polymers, and fluid rheology), pharmacy and medicine  (biocides, drug carriers, capping agents for metal nanoparticles with biocidal properties, and nonviral gene delivery systems), and optoelectronics (through spatial networks of well-dispersed molecules).

Gemini surfactants also play a key role in new technologies producing smart materials. A broad review of their application in research will further our understanding of the technological challenges facing Gemini surfactants.

Dr. Iwona Kowalczyk
Prof. Dr. Bogumil E. Brycki
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • gemini surfactants
  • biological activity
  • physicochemical analysis
  • smart material

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