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Biological activity and environmental impact of anionic surfactants
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The role of anionic surfactants in the environment is ambiguous: they can cause serous environmental pollution with toxic effect on living organisms; otherwise, they can promote the decomposition and/or removal of other inorganic and organic pollutants from the environment.About:
This article is published in Environment International.The article was published on 2002-11-01. It has received 492 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Environmental pollution.read more
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Antifungal activity of silver nanoparticles against Candida spp.
Aleš Panáček,Milan Kolář,Renata Večeřová,Robert Prucek,Jana Soukupova,Vladimír Kryštof,Petr Hamal,Radek Zbořil,Libor Kvítek +8 more
TL;DR: The antifungal activity of the silver nanoparticles (NPs) prepared by the modified Tollens process was evaluated for pathogenic Candida spp.
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Use of surfactants for the remediation of contaminated soils: a review.
TL;DR: This review article summarizes the findings of recent literatures regarding remediation of contaminated soils/sites using surfactants as an enhancing agent and reveals the good prospect of applying surfactant-based technologies to soil remediation.
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Fluorescent Sensors Based on Aggregation-Induced Emission: Recent Advances and Perspectives
TL;DR: In this review, the newly emerged aggregation-induced emission fluorogens (AIEgens) are featured with high emission efficiency in the aggregated state, which provide unique opportunities for various sensing applications with advantages of high signal-to-noise ratio, strong photostability, and large Stokes' shift.
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Proteins, polysaccharides, and their complexes used as stabilizers for emulsions: Alternatives to synthetic surfactants in the pharmaceutical field?
TL;DR: The novel biopolymer-stabilized emulsions have a great potential in the pharmaceutical field for encapsulation, controlled digestion, and targeted release although several challenging issues such as storage and bacteriological concerns still need to be addressed.
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Are pharmaceuticals potent environmental pollutants? Part I: environmental risk assessments of selected active pharmaceutical ingredients.
TL;DR: It is concluded that risk for acute toxic effects in the environment with the current use of active pharmaceutical ingredients is unlikely and measures to reduce potential environmental impact posed by pharmaceutical products must be based on knowledge on chronic ecotoxic effects of both active pharmaceutical ingredient as well as excipients.
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Chronic and sublethal toxicities of surfactants to aquatic animals: A review and risk assessment
TL;DR: The aquatic safety of the anionic LAS is indicated, more so than for any other surfactant, and safety assessments for other major surfactants in saltwater and freshwater should be considered preliminary and limited until validated with corresponding exposure measurements and additional laboratory and field-derived chronic toxicity data for animal test species.
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Adsorption/aggregation of surfactants and their mixtures at solid-liquid interfaces
Ponisseril Somasundaran,L. Huang +1 more
TL;DR: It was found that the adsorption of anionic surfactants alone on alumina was initially highly exothermic due to the electrostatic interaction with the substrate, and further adsOrption leading to a solloid (hemimicelle) formation is proposed to be mainly an entropy-driven process.
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The effects of lipids and detergents on ATPase-active P-glycoprotein
TL;DR: Results indicate that membrane lipids are necessary for catalytic activity of the ATPase domains of P-glycoprotein, with saturated phosphatidylethanolamines both activating the ATP enzyme and providing protection from thermal inactivation, while fluid lipid mixtures are able to restore activity following delipidation.
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Selection of Surfactants for the Removal of Petroleum Products from Shallow Sandy Aquifers
TL;DR: In this article, a laboratory study was conducted to evaluate the relative suitability of 10 commercial surfactants for washing residual levels of automatic transmission fluid (ATF) from sandy material.
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Minimizing surfactant losses using twin-head anionic surfactants in subsurface remediation
TL;DR: In this article, disulfonate surfactants are evaluated for use in surfactant enhanced subsurface remediation and shown to be less susceptible to precipitation than monosulfonates and also less prone to sorption.