De-risking new surfactant and polymer classes in personal care formulations

个人护理产品几乎完全依赖于棕榈油原料的表面活性剂或肥皂，提供清洁和调理。然而，在新的表面活性剂配方转向替代原料时存在相当大的风险，因为基于基础胶体科学的设计规则尚不存在。与世界领先的配方专家合作，该项目旨在结合高通量微流控平台，指导更详细的胶体，表面和散射技术，以推动机制研究，将微观结构与配方性能联系起来。这将导致控制这些配方中表面活性剂和聚合物之间协同相互作用所需的设计规则。

Personal care products are almost completely reliant on palm oil feedstocks for the surfactants or soaps that provide cleansing and conditioning. Yet, there is considerable risk in moving to alternative feedstocks for new surfactant formulations, where the design rules based in fundamental colloid science do not yet exist. In collaboration with world leading formulation expertise, this project aims to use a combination of high-throughput microfluidic platforms to direct more detailed colloidal, surface and scattering techniques to drive mechanistic studies to link microstructure to formulation properties. This will lead to the design rules needed to control the synergistic interactions between surfactants and polymers in these formulations.