The rise of antibiotic resistant strains, as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), challenges the current treatment infections. In case ocular infections, eye drops are commonly prescribed. However, their efficacy is usually compromised by low viscosity these formulations and drainage. To overcome drawbacks, deep eutectic solvent (DES)-based microemulsions with thermo-responsive c...

We review the theory of curvature elasticity of thin" fluid films starting with a phenomenological formalism motivated by microscopic, physical examples. The effects, of finite compressibility 'of the layer, exchange of molecules between the film and the solution, and the intrinsic bending stiffness of the film are taken into account· these degrees of freedom account for all the" important mole...

We report here sequence-specific liquid/liquid extraction of single-stranded DNA using reverse micelles (water-in-oil microemulsions), in which hybridization between a DNA-surfactant and a target DNA having a complementary sequence allows selective transport of the target DNA to an organic phase from a mixture of DNA oligonucleotides.

Hybrid surfactants containing both fluorocarbon (FC) and hydrocarbon (HC) chains have recently been shown to solubilize water and form elongated reversed micelles in supercritical CO2. To clarify the most effective FC and HC chain lengths, the aggregation behavior and interfacial properties of hybrid surfactants FCm-HCn (FC length m/HC length n = 4/2, 4/4, 6/2, 6/4, 6/5, 6/6, and 6/8) were exam...

Novel flexible, thermally stable and hierarchical porous silica nanofibrous membranes with superhydrophilicity and underwater superoleophobicity were prepared by a facile in situ synthesis method, which can effectively separate oil-in-water microemulsions solely driven by gravity, with an extremely high flux of 2237 L m(-2) h(-1).

CO2-microemulsions show strong pressure dependent properties. Using time-resolved SANS to investigate the kinetics of structural changes upon periodic pressure jumps of adjustable amplitude, we found that the compression-induced formation of cylinders occurs on a timescale of one second, whereas the expansion-induced disintegration into CO2 swollen spherical micelles is much faster.