Molecular Structural Design of Surfactants that can Reliably Show Target Properties: Development of Surfactants that are Friendly to Humans and the Environment

Abstract

In the process of being involved in research on the development of functional surfactants for many years, the author has studied from the viewpoint of developing molecular design techniques that can reliably show the desired physical properties, breaking away from the molecular structure-surface activity relationship concept. In this paper, I provide the molecular structure design approach I have taken in the two studies in our series of research. (1) Development of nonionic surfactants that can drastically boost the foamability of mixed surfactant systems, (2) Development of general anionic surfactants that can respond to the sustainable age.

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