Surface adsorption in hydrophobin and hydrophobin / surfactant mixtures

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Hydrophobins are secreted fungal proteins and are small lipopeptide biosurfactants. They are strongly surface active and self-assemble at interfaces. Their unique film forming properties have stimulated applications where emulsion and foam stability is important. There is now a strong environmental drive for the development of more biocompatible / biosustainable surfactant based products, and Hydrophobin posseses many of the favourable qualities for inclusion in such formulations. However, little is known about their self-assembly properties at surfaces and in solution, and in particular about their interaction with conventional surfactants. We request here neutron reflectivity, NR, beam time on SURF to study the nature of the adsorption of Hydrophobin II and of Hydrophobin / surfactant mixtures at the air-solution interface.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24068509
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24068509
Provenance
Creator Professor Jeff Penfold; Dr Bob Thomas; Dr Ian Tucker; Dr Jordan Petkov
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-06-01T08:24:40Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-06-04T08:08:30Z