9Metallosurfactants as Nanoreactors for Nanoparticle Synthesis
Jaspreet Kaur, Rekha Bhar, Khushwinder Kaur, and Surinder K. Mehta
Panjab University, Department of Chemistry and Centre of Advanced studies in Chemistry, Sector‐14, Chandigarh, 160014, India
9.1 Introduction
Amphiphiles constitute a very special class of soft materials, known to mankind since many centuries in the capacity of soaps, detergents, wetting agents, and emulsifiers. A single molecule of surfactant possesses two different kinds of chemical nature, i.e. a part of the molecule is hydrophobic, while the other is hydrophilic [1]. The competitive and balancing forces between the two lead to many interesting and useful properties. Perhaps the most fundamental and fascinating ...
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