Green surfactants reveal mechanistic principles governing polymeric microbubble formation and function

Roman A., Barmin, Sabina A., Saraolu, Rustam A., Gumerov, Yanchen, Li, MirJavad, Moosavifar, Jens, Köhler, Michael, Pohl, Céline, Bastard, Stephan, Rütten, Laura, De Laporte, Katharina, Landfester, Igor I., Potemkin, Fabian, Kiessling, Twan, Lammers, Roger M., Pallares

Green Chemistry |

Greener non-ionic surfactants replace Triton X-100 in polymeric microbubble synthesis, revealing how hydrophobic tail structure, PEG length, and HLB engineer microbubble yield, morphology, shell composition, drug loading, and acoustic performance.

http://pubs.rsc.org/GC/article-lookup/doi/10.1039/D6GC02897G