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Solution and Interfacial Characteristics of Surfactants and Polymers and Their Industrial Applications

  • 1st Edition - June 1, 2027
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Dr. Malik Abdul Rub, Naved Azum, Anish Khan, Khalid A Alzahrani
  • Language: English

Solution and Interfacial Characteristics of Surfactants and Polymers and Their Industrial Applications provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental principles govern… Read more

Description

Solution and Interfacial Characteristics of Surfactants and Polymers and Their Industrial Applications provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental principles governing the solution, surface, and interfacial behavior of surfactants and polymers. The book explains how molecular structure influences physicochemical properties, self-assembly, micellization, adsorption, and interfacial phenomena, while integrating recent advances in synthesis, characterization, and theoretical understanding of these systems. Bridging fundamental science with real-world relevance, the book highlights a wide range of industrial and technological applications, including pharmaceuticals, drug delivery, wastewater treatment, petrochemicals, biotechnology, environmental remediation, food, cosmetics, textiles, and advanced materials. Emphasis is placed on sustainable, biodegradable, and eco-friendly surfactants and polymers, as well as emerging materials such as biosurfactants, ionic liquid surfactants, polymeric micelles, and multifunctional polymer systems. Edited by internationally recognized experts and featuring contributions from leading researchers worldwide, this volume serves as an authoritative reference for both academia and industry. It is designed for graduate and senior undergraduate students, researchers, scientists, and engineers working in surfactant science, polymer chemistry, colloidal and interfacial science, and related disciplines, offering both theoretical insight and practical guidance for advancing research and industrial innovation.

Key features

  • Combines solution chemistry, interfacial behavior, and physicochemical properties of both surfactants and polymers in a single, unified reference
  • Goes beyond general chemistry texts by deeply exploring solution behavior, surface activity, self-assembly, and interaction mechanisms
  • Highlights biodegradable, non-toxic, and environmentally sustainable surfactants and polymers
  • Fundamental concepts are directly connected to applications in pharmaceuticals, drug delivery, wastewater treatment, petrochemicals, cosmetics, detergents, food, biomedical, and environmental industries

Readership

Graduate students (Master’s and PhD), academic and industrial researchers, scientists and engineers working in surfactant science, polymer chemistry, colloidal and interfacial science

Table of contents

1. Incorporating conventional surfactants and surfactant foams into the remediation of contaminated soil

2. An overview of present applications for foams formed from surfactant–surfactant mixture solutions

3. Anionic gemini surfactants, their ability for bio-application, and ways to improve their biocompatibility

4. Mixed micellization with non-ionic surfactants: Improvement of physicochemical properties

5. Surfactants and their function in improving adsorbent surface properties and removing lethal metals from wastewater

6. Advances in imidazolium-based ionic liquid surfactants' assembly behavior and their application

7. Current state of the art on using renewable building blocks to develop sustainable surfactants

8. Incorporating saponin surfactants into drug delivery systems as a new use for natural medicine ingredients

9. Recent Applications of Biodegradable surfactants

10. Polymer-based materials for the treatment of industrial waste

11. Advances in multifunctional polymers compounds for biomedical applications

12. Physicochemical Properties of synthetic polymers and their applications in pharmaceutical industry

13. Environmental Applications of natural and synthetic polymers

14. Physicochemical behavior of Polymer micelles and their applications in petrochemicals industry

15. The classification and assessment of polymeric micelles in biorelevant specifications: A perception into their use in drug delivery

16. An overview of polymer micelles, their properties, types, and applications in chemistry

17. An overview of current knowledge and applications of biodegradable polymers as surface-active agents

18. An overview of the role of surface-active polymers in the synthesis and stabilization of nanoparticles

19. Chemistry of Surfactants and Polymers and their Application in Pharmaceutical Science

20. Surface and self-association behavior of biosurfactants and biosurfactant and polymers mixtures by employing different techniques

21. Surfactant-polyelectrolyte mixtures in the solution and at air-solution interfaces and their importance

22. Properties of sugar based surfactants: Association, surface, and adsorption phenomena

23. Analyzing the synergy and antagonistic effects of mixed binary surfactants for optimizing foam performance in high electrolytes’ environment

24. Interactions between synthetic surfactants/polymers and biological macromolecules in a physical and chemical context

24. Interactions between synthetic surfactants/polymers and biological macromolecules in a physical and chemical context

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 1, 2027
  • Language: English

About the editors

Dr. Malik Abdul Rub

Editor

Malik Abdul Rub completed his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University, India, in 2011. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Centre of Excellence for Advanced Materials and Research (CEAMR), King Abdulaziz University. His research focuses on solution and colloidal behaviour of surfactants and amphiphiles, mixed micellization of amphiphilic drugs with various additives, and the thermodynamics of amphiphilic systems. He has extensive experience studying interactions of amphiphilic drugs with bile salts, triblock polymers, surfactants, proteins, hydrotropes, and lipids using a wide range of physicochemical techniques. His work also includes the synthesis and characterization of gemini and novel surfactants for use as drug carriers and their interactions with biologically relevant additives.

Dr. Malik has an extensive publication record in high-quality journals, has authored books, and has contributed to patent-related work. He has also been consistently recognized among the Top 2% Scientists Worldwide in rankings published by Stanford University across multiple years.

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Centre of Excellence for Advanced Materials and Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Naved Azum

Editor
Dr. Naved Azum is an Associate Professor at the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah. He previously served as an Assistant Professor at Aligarh Muslim University before joining King Abdulaziz University in 2011. His research focuses on experimental and computational studies of drug excipient interactions, examining how physicochemical properties, degradation pathways, and external factors influence the stability and performance of pharmaceutical formulations. He has published extensively in these areas.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Centre of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Anish Khan

Editor

Dr. Anish Khan is currently working as Assistant Professor in Chemistry Department, Centre of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research (CEAMR), Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Completed Ph.D. from Aligarh Muslim University, India in 2010. Completed Postdoctoral from School of Chemical Sciences, University Sains Malaysia (USM) in Electroanalytical chemistry in 2010. Working in the field of synthetic biosensor, polymer composites, organic–inorganic electrically conducting nanocomposites. More than 200 research articles, 70 book chapters 30 books published in referred international publisher and more than 20 international conferences/ workshop. More than 30 research projects completed. Editorial board member of more than 11 international journals. Member of American Nano Society.

Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department, Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Khalid A Alzahrani

Editor

Dr. Khalid A Alzahrani is working as Professor in the Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is chairman of Chemistry Department. Currently he is also director of the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research, King Abdulaziz University. He secured more than 100 research articles.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Chemistry Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia