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Rico F Tabor1, David D Tan, Sean S Han
1School of Chemistry, Monash University, Victoria 3800 (Australia). Rico.Tabor@monash.edu.
Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|September 13, 2014
Abstract:
The parallel synthesis and properties of a library of photoswitchable surfactants comprising a hydrophobic butylazobenzene tail-group and a hydrophilic carbohydrate head-group, including the first surfactants to exhibit dual photo- and pH-responsive behavior, is reported. This new generation of surfactants shows varying micelle morphologies, photocontrollable surface tension, and pH-induced aggregation and adsorption.
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