I-Corps: Surfactants Platform for Agrochemical and Enhanced Oil Recovery Applications

I-Corps项目的广泛影响/商业潜力是由一种新的基于植物的表面活性剂技术的发展推动的，该技术有可能将农用化学品、石油回收和洗涤剂/个人护理市场转变为健康友好和环境安全的化学品。现有植物表面活性剂技术的一个主要局限性是，与石化表面活性剂相比，它们的性能有限。这种完全生物可再生的表面活性剂技术具有竞争优势，可以针对特定市场进行定制，有可能超越所有现有表面活性剂，并且有可能取代特定配方中许多现有化学品的功能，提供更多的价值并简化复杂的产品。I-Corps项目旨在进行目标客户发现研究，以评估所提议的表面活性剂技术的商业影响，并将可调技术的技术性能与目标市场的独特竞争优势相结合。I-Corps的这个项目是基于一项专利工艺技术的开发，该技术将植物性天然油脂和糖结合成高功能表面活性剂，其性能优于所有其他表面活性剂。初步研究的技术结果表明，该技术具有针对特定市场的可定制性，提供强大的多功能性能，以取代对复杂化学品混合物的需求。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is driven by the development of a new plant-based surfactant technology, which has the potential to transform the agrochemicals, oil recovery, and detergents/personal care market toward health friendly and environmentally safe chemicals. A major limitation of existing plant-based surfactant technologies is that they have limited performance compared petrochemical-based surfactants. This entirely bio-renewable surfactant technology provides a competitive advantage in that can be customized toward a specific market, potentially outperform all existing surfactants, and that it can potentially replace the function of numerous existing chemicals in a particular formulation, providing substantially more value and simplifying complex products.This I-Corps project aims to engage in targeted customer discovery research to evaluate the commercial impact of the proposed surfactant technology and to align the technical performance of the tunable technology with a distinct competitive advantage in the target market. This I-Corps project is based on the development of a patented process technology for combining plant-based natural oils and sugars into highly functional surfactants that outperform all other surfactants. Technical results from preliminary research have demonstrated the customizable nature of the technology toward specific markets, providing strong multi-functional performance to replace the need for complex blends of chemicals.