TY - CHAP AU - Lídia Pinheiro AU - Célia Faustino ED - Reza Najjar Y1 - 2017-07-05 PY - 2017 T1 - Amino Acid-Based Surfactants for Biomedical Applications N2 - The surfactants are among the materials that have a significant importance in everyday life of human. The rapid growth in science and technology has opened new horizons in a very wide range, in which the surfactants play a major and vital role. Hence, the increasing number of applications as well as arising environmental issues has made this relatively old topic still a hot research theme. In the first section of this book, some of the applications of surfactants in various fields such as biology and petroleum industry, as well as their environmental effects, are described. In Section 2 some experimental techniques used for characterization of the surfactants have been discussed. BT - Application and Characterization of Surfactants SP - Ch. 7 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/67977 DO - 10.5772/67977 SN - 978-953-51-3326-1 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-18 ER -