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Cover Picture: Surfactant Capsules Propel Interfacial Oil Droplets: An Environmental Cleanup Strategy (ChemPlusChem 5/2013)
Author(s) -
Seah Tzu Hui,
Zhao Guanjia,
Pumera Martin
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
chempluschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.801
H-Index - 61
ISSN - 2192-6506
DOI - 10.1002/cplu.201390018
Subject(s) - marangoni effect , oil spill , pulmonary surfactant , environmental science , oil droplet , petroleum engineering , chemical engineering , materials science , nanotechnology , emulsion , environmental engineering , geology , engineering , meteorology , physics , convection
The cover picture shows a beautiful Indonesian coral reef. The inset is of a millimetre‐sized capsule designed to clean up oil spills from environmental waters. Such capsules move as a result of the Marangoni effect. Martin Pumera and co‐workers outline cleaning of oil droplets with these self‐propelled artificial capsules in their Communication on page 395 ff. They study the influence of different cleaning agents (that is, surfactants) on the removal of oil from a water/air interface.