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The underlying order : Isomerism as a blueprint to control the behavior of sugar-based (bio)surfactants

Sanchez-Fernandez, Adrian LU orcid and Poon, Jia Fei LU (2024) In Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science 69.
Abstract

Surfactants are ubiquitous in formulated products and technologies. As one of the most important commodity chemicals, their remarkable consumption leads to the necessity of finding sustainable alternatives. Although the use of renewable sources limits the available chemical space for a “Green” production, the great variety of naturally occurring precursors, i.e., fatty acids and sugars, opens a myriad of possibilities to create biosurfactants capable of replacing the fatigued fossil-derived amphiphiles. Here, we visit the concept of isomer-directed assembly applied to sugar-based surfactants, wherein amphiphile assembly and function are fine-tuned through changes in the stereochemical and regiochemical configuration of the molecule. As... (More)

Surfactants are ubiquitous in formulated products and technologies. As one of the most important commodity chemicals, their remarkable consumption leads to the necessity of finding sustainable alternatives. Although the use of renewable sources limits the available chemical space for a “Green” production, the great variety of naturally occurring precursors, i.e., fatty acids and sugars, opens a myriad of possibilities to create biosurfactants capable of replacing the fatigued fossil-derived amphiphiles. Here, we visit the concept of isomer-directed assembly applied to sugar-based surfactants, wherein amphiphile assembly and function are fine-tuned through changes in the stereochemical and regiochemical configuration of the molecule. As such, we show how isomerism defines directional interactions and solvation, ultimately dictating the assembly of surfactants. However, a general framework to understand the structure-function relationship for these is still missing, which is key to realizing this divergent set of tools for the design of new surfactants.

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Biosurfactants, Isomerism, Rheology, Self-assembly, Supramolecular assembly
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Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science
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101768
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10.1016/j.cocis.2023.101768
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