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Edgar Acosta
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Research
Latest papers
Yeast Viability in HLD-NAC-Designed Fully Dilutable Lecithin-Linker Microemulsions.
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025 · senior author
The Characteristic Curvature (Cc) of Ionic Surfactants Assessed via Small-Angle X-ray Scattering.
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2023 · senior author
HLD-NAC design and evaluation of a fully dilutable lecithin-linker SMEDDS for ibuprofen.
International journal of pharmaceutics · 2021 · senior author
Latest funding
- $168,000
Interfacial curvature of surfactant systems
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
- $147,116
Enabling the discovery and development of functional materials and technologies via confocal rheometry
NSERC · 2018 · Co-investigator
- $25,000
Surfactants and microemulsions as flow conditioners for reservoirs
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
18 publications.
Yeast Viability in HLD-NAC-Designed Fully Dilutable Lecithin-Linker Microemulsions.
Doratt Mendoza J, Ding J, Acosta Alvarez M, Acosta E
The Characteristic Curvature (Cc) of Ionic Surfactants Assessed via Small-Angle X-ray Scattering.
Leng Z, Acosta E
HLD-NAC design and evaluation of a fully dilutable lecithin-linker SMEDDS for ibuprofen.
Nouraei M, Collymore C, Diosady L, Acosta E
Interfacial Tension of the Water-Diluted Bitumen Interface at High Bitumen Concentrations Measured Using a Microfluidic Technique.
Goel S, Joshi N, Uddin MS, Ng S, Acosta E, Ramachandran A
Characterizing the Oil-like and Surfactant-like Behavior of Polar Oils.
Ghayour A, Acosta E
Design of nonionic micelle-laden polysaccharide hydrogels for controlled delivery of hydrophobic drugs.
Munoz SZ, Zhadan R, Acosta E
Integrated Free Energy Model (IFEM) for microemulsions.
Boza Troncoso A, Acosta E
The Cloud Point of Alkyl Ethoxylates and Its Prediction with the Hydrophilic-Lipophilic Difference (HLD) Framework.
Zarate-Muñoz S, Boza Troncoso A, Acosta E
Van der Waals free energy model for solubilization of oil in micelles.
Troncoso AB, Acosta E
Formulation design for target delivery of iron nanoparticles to TCE zones.
Wang Z, Acosta E
Interfacial curvature of surfactant systems
Principal investigators: Acosta, Edgar
Keywords: bitumen; Colloids; Drug delivery; Enhanced oil recovery; extraction; Microemulsions; Nutraceuticals; porous media; Surfactants; Thermodynamics
Enabling the discovery and development of functional materials and technologies via confocal rheometry
Principal investigators: Ramchandran, Arun
Surfactants and microemulsions as flow conditioners for reservoirs
Principal investigators: Acosta, Edgar
Managing interface composition and hydrodynamics to enhance coalescence in froth treatment
Principal investigators: Acosta, Edgar
Extremely fine water-in-bitumen emulsions in oil sands extraction: Origins and Remedies
Principal investigators: Ramchandran, Arun
Interfacial curvature of surfactants
Principal investigators: Acosta, Edgar
Remediation Education Network (RENEW)
Principal investigators: Sleep, Brent
Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES)
Principal investigators: Papangelakis, Vladimiros
Acoustic - Electroacoustic Spectrometer (AES) for colloids characterization
Principal investigators: Acosta, Edgar
Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation for characterization of value-added biomaterials from underutilized biomass and activated sludge
Principal investigators: Master, Emma
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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