Stearic acids - Green surfactants and original foaming properties : Fatty acids: natural surface-active molecules

Fatty acids: natural surface-active molecules
Stearic acids - Green surfactants and original foaming properties

Authors : Anne-Laure FAMEAU, Arnaud SAINT-JALMES, Fabrice COUSIN, Jean-Paul DOULIEZ

Review date: January 30, 2025 | Lire en français

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2. Fatty acids: natural surface-active molecules

Readers are referred to the [K 342]Surfactants section of Techniques de l'Ingénieur.

A surfactant is an amphiphilic molecule with a hydrophilic part (having an affinity for water) and a hydrophobic part (having no affinity for water).

A surfactant is a molecule possessing both a hydrophobic apolar part, generally made up of an alkyl hydrocarbon chain, and a...

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Fatty acids: natural surface-active molecules

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