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.

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 ...

Prices for ethylene, a basic feedstock for detergent alcohols and other surfactant intermediates, rose 35% in 2005, according to Dave Nelson, a marketing leader in Dow's surfactants business.

Adding dish soap to your weed killer is thought to make the solution more effective, eliminating the weeds quicker. However, ...

Without surfactant, it would take more effort to breathe and a person would need mechanical help to do so. Vaping continues to be popular but not much is known about what happens with the aerosol ...

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.

Environmental Safety of the Use of Major Surfactant Classes in North America. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 2014; 44 (17): 1893 DOI: 10.1080/10739149.2013.803777 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...