Renewal Proposal for Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Studies in Novel Surfactants

如今，表面活性剂和聚合物被用于所有主要行业，包括家用和个人护理、成像、印刷、先进矿物和陶瓷、石油和燃料、微电子、制药、食品加工、涂料和涂料以及环境控制。哥伦比亚大学新型表面活性剂高级研究产学研合作研究中心成立于1998年，目的是阐明不同表面活性分子及其混合物的行为，并开发关键依赖于传统和新型表面活性剂的结构和功能的新工艺方案。该中心的主要目标是开发关于不同表面活性剂的结构与其在不同工业过程中的性能之间的关系的知识库，表征其溶液和界面行为，并确定合适的工业应用。它的目标也是开发新型特种表面活性剂，这些表面活性剂对化学工业中的特定应用是“环境友好的”。

Surfactants and polymers are used today in every major industry including household and personal care, imaging, printing, advanced mineral and ceramics, petroleum and fuel, micro-electronics, pharmaceuticals, food processing, paints and coating, and environmental control. The Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Studies in Novel Surfactants (IUCS) at Columbia University was established in 1998 to elucidate the behavior of different surface active molecules and their mixtures and to develop new processing schemes that depend critically on the structure and function of conventional and novel surfactants. The major aim of the center is to develop a knowledge base on the relationship between the structure of different surfactants and their performance in various industrial processes, characterize their solution and interfacial behavior and identify suitable industrial applications. It is also an aim to develop novel specialty surfactants that are "environmentally benign" for specific applications in the chemical industry.