Bhattacharya, Santanu and Ghosh, Yamuna Krishnan (2001) First report of phase selective gelation of oil from oil/water mixtures. Possible implications toward containing oil spills. In: Chemical Communications (2). 185 -186.
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Abstract
From a two-phase mixture of water and oil (either commercial fuel or pure organic solvent), a simple amino acid derivative, N-lauroyl-L-alanine has been shown to be able to gelate the oil phase selectively; SEM and FT-IR provided molecular level insights into the process of gelation.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Chemical Communications |
| Publisher: | The Royal Society of Chemistry |
| Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to The Royal Society of Chemistry. |
| Keywords: | Low-Molecular-Mass;Organic-Solvents;Carbohydrate Amphiphiles;Gels;Gelators;Polymers. |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Chemical Sciences > Organic Chemistry |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2009 11:35 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Sep 2010 04:54 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/16976 |
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