Lung surfactant coats tiny air sacs in the lung. Without it, every breath is a struggle, like blowing up millions of little balloons. With surfactant, breathing is as easy as blowing soap bubbles.

Surfactant monolayers as a soft guiding template A team led by Ute Kaiser and Xinliang Feng of the TU Dresden and Zhikun Zheng at Sun Yat-Sen University, China, is saying that it has now succeeded in ...

To determine the influence of surfactant on a cell's susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection, immunofluorescence was used to detect the four SPs at 24 hpi in the DLOs and WLOs.

Deficiency or dysfunction of the pulmonary surfactant plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of respiratory diseases of the newborn. After a short review of the pulmonary surfactant, including ...

University of Wyoming researchers have published a comprehensive overview of established techniques for assessing shale ...

Now scientists have shown they can boost both hydrogen and biodiesel production from waste by adding a biodegradable surfactant (ACS ES&T Engg. 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acsestengg.2c00372).

Surfactant, which is made of lipids and proteins, is a critical layer in the lungs that allows people to breathe with minimal effort by reducing surface tension.

Graphene can act as surfactant Date: July 22, 2020 Source: Cranfield University Summary: New research into graphene flakes has discovered that the material can act as a surfactant, for the first ...

Autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (aPAP) is a disease characterized by alveolar filling that leads to progressive accumulation of surfactant in alveoli, hypoxemia, and in some patients ...

In the Permian basin, enhanced oil recovery (EOR) schemes include CO 2 injection, huff and puff, water injection, and, to a lesser extent, surfactant injection.

Clements succeeded, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for the artificial surfactant came in 1990, leading to thousands of lives saved. In 1994, Clements won the highly prestigious Albert ...