In this study, a novel adamantanamine-paclitaxel (AD-PTX) incorporated oligochitosan- carboxymethyl-β-cyclodextrin (CSO-g-CM-β-CD) self-assembly macromolecular (CSO-g-CM-β-CD@AD-PTX) micelle was successfully prepared in water through sonication. The formed molecules were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, two-dimension...

The validity of the assumption on the predominant contribution of the stepwise processes to the ionic micelle formation/destruction in the vicinity of critical micelle concentration was investigated by molecular dynamics simulation. A coarse-grained model was used to describe the surfactant/water mixture. The cluster size distribution was estimated directly from molecular dynamics simulations o...

A Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutant derived by random mutagenesis with N-methyl-N¢-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine, producing high levels of the rhamnolipid biosurfactants was selected on Siegmund-Wagner (SW) plates. The mutant designated P. aeruginosa PTCC1637 produces rhamnolipids at concentrations 10 time more than parent strain. NMR analysis and surface tension measurement showed that the biosurfactan...

To study integral membrane proteins, one has to extract them from the membrane—the step that is typically achieved by the application of detergents. In this mini-review, we summarize the top 10 detergents used for the structural analysis of membrane proteins based on the published results. The aim of this study is to provide the reader with an overview of the main properties of available deterg...

The effect of three organic aromatic salts - Phenyltrimethylammonium (PhTMAB), benzyltrimethylammonium (BzTMAB) and benzyltrimethylammonium (BzTEAB) bromides - on the micellization of sodium dodecylsulfate has been investigated by conductometric method. The critical micelle concentration (CMC) values were found to decrease with increase in the concentration of the aromatic ammonium salts. Therm...

When two or more surfactants are mixed, the mixed system exhibits improved performance compared with a single surfactant in solution. The Markov chain model can analyze critical micelle concentration (CMC) of micelles, yielding results similar to those simple mixture model, which is typically referred as “regular solution theory”. In this study, hypotheses were tested: (1) for ternary systems b...

α, ω-alkane-bis(n-myristoyloxyethyl-n, n-dimethyl)-diammonium bromide were synthesized and confirmed by ft-ir, ft-raman and 1h-nmr spectroscopy. surface tensions were measured by sigma 70 and conductivity meter ec-470c. critical micelle concentration values were 2.70×10-4∼3.05×10-4 mol/l. the krafft points were measured at 39.1 ~ 43.2℃. their inhibition effects on the corrosion of low carbon st...