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Overview

Didier Touraud is affiliated with the University of Regensburg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a specific focus on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, and Molecular Medicine.

The scientist's recent scholarly work includes publications on diverse topics related to solubilization, surfactant-free microemulsions, and curcumin extraction from Curcuma Longa. Some notable papers include:

  • Solubilization and extraction of curcumin from Curcuma Longa using green, sustainable, and food-approved surfactant-free microemulsions (2020, Food Chemistry)
  • Hofmeister versus Neuberg: is ATP really a biological hydrotrope? (2021, Cell Reports Physical Science)
  • NADES-based surfactant-free microemulsions for solubilization and extraction of curcumin from Curcuma Longa (2021, Food Chemistry)
  • Salting-in and salting-out effects of short amphiphilic molecules: a balance between specific ion effects and hydrophobicity (2020, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics)
  • Curcumin extracts from Curcuma Longa - Improvement of concentration, purity, and stability in food-approved and water-soluble surfactant-free microemulsions (2020, Food Chemistry)

The key topics addressed in their work encompass:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Curcumin's Biomedical Applications
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Ionic liquids properties and applications
  • Surfactants and Colloidal Systems
  • Biochemical and biochemical processes
  • Natural product bioactivities and synthesis

Frequent collaborators of Didier Touraud include Werner Kunz, Evamaria Hofmann, Verena Huber, Ruth M. Gschwind, and Burkhard König. Collaboration counts indicate sustained partnerships with these researchers across multiple projects.

The scientist's work is frequently published in specific venues, notably:

  • Journal of Molecular Liquids (10 publications)
  • The Cambridge Structural Database (8 publications)
  • Food Chemistry (5 publications)
  • Molecules (3 publications)
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Hofmeister series and specific interactions of charged headgroups with aqueous ions

    Nina Vlachy;Barbara Jagoda-Cwiklik;Robert Vácha;Didier Touraud

  • How to explain microemulsions formed by solvent mixtures without conventional surfactants.

    Thomas N. Zemb;Michael Klossek;Tobias Lopian;Julien Marcus

  • Photocatalytic activation of alkyl chlorides by assembly-promoted single electron transfer in microheterogeneous solutions

    Maciej Giedyk;Maciej Giedyk;Rok Narobe;Sophia Weiß;Didier Touraud

  • Unified Concept of Solubilization in Water by Hydrotropes and Cosolvents

    Pierre Bauduin;Audrey Renoncourt;Andreas Kopf;Didier Touraud

  • Specific ion effects at protein surfaces: a molecular dynamics study of bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor and horseradish peroxidase in selected salt solutions.

    Lubos Vrbka;Pavel Jungwirth;Pierre Bauduin;Didier Touraud

  • Choline carboxylate surfactants: biocompatible and highly soluble in water

    Regina Klein;Didier Touraud;Werner Kunz

  • Role of the surfactant headgroup on the counterion specificity in the micelle-to-vesicle transition through salt addition.

    Nina Vlachy;Markus Drechsler;Jean-Marc Verbavatz;Didier Touraud

  • Microemulsions with an ionic liquid surfactant and room temperature ionic liquids as polar pseudo-phase.

    Oliver Zech;Stefan Thomaier;Pierre Bauduin;Thomas Rück

  • Emergence of surfactant-free micelles from ternary solutions

    S. Schöttl;J. Marcus;O. Diat;D. Touraud

  • Structure and solubility in surfactant-free microemulsions.

    Michael L. Klossek;Didier Touraud;Thomas Zemb;Thomas Zemb;Werner Kunz

  • Specific Alkali Cation Effects in the Transition from Micelles to Vesicles through Salt Addition

    Audrey Renoncourt;Nina Vlachy;Pierre Bauduin;Markus Drechsler

  • Hofmeister specific-ion effects on enzyme activity and buffer pH: Horseradish peroxidase in citrate buffer

    Pierre Bauduin;Fawaz Nohmie;Fawaz Nohmie;Didier Touraud;Roland Neueder

  • Determining the cytotoxicity of catanionic surfactant mixtures on HeLa cells

    Nina Vlachy;Didier Touraud;Jörg Heilmann;Werner Kunz

  • Short chain glycerol 1-monoethers—a new class of green solvo-surfactants

    Sébastien Queste;Pierre Bauduin;Didier Touraud;Werner Kunz

  • Hofmeister effect on enzymatic catalysis and colloidal structures

    Pierre Bauduin;Audrey Renoncourt;Didier Touraud;Werner Kunz

  • Octanol‐rich and water‐rich domains in dynamic equilibrium in the pre‐ouzo region of ternary systems containing a hydrotrope

    Olivier Diat;Michael L. Klossek;Didier Touraud;Bruno Deme

  • Hofmeister effects in biology: effect of choline addition on the salt-induced super activity of horseradish peroxidase and its implication for salt resistance of plants.

    M. C. Pinna;Pierre Bauduin;Didier Touraud;M. Monduzzi

  • Solubilization and extraction of curcumin from Curcuma Longa using green, sustainable, and food-approved surfactant-free microemulsions.

    Pierre Degot;Verena Huber;Evamaria Hofmann;Maximilian Hahn

  • Nonionic surfactant Brij 35 in water and in various simple alcohols: Structural investigations by small-angle X-ray scattering and dynamic light scattering

    Matija Tomšič;Marija Bešter-Rogač;Andrej Jamnik;Werner Kunz

  • Toward surfactant-free and water-free microemulsions.

    Veronika Fischer;Julien Marcus;Didier Touraud;Olivier Diat

  • The investigation of the influence of water and temperature on the LiCl/DMAc/cellulose system

    Sarka Chrapava;Didier Touraud;Thomas Rosenau;Antje Potthast

  • Antioxidant activity of hydro distillation water residues from Rosmarinus officinalis L. leaves determined by DPPH assays

    Alexander Wollinger;Élodie Perrin;Jamal Chahboun;Valérie Jeannot

  • Ternary systems of nonionic surfactant Brij 35, water and various simple alcohols: Structural investigations by small-angle X-ray scattering and dynamic light scattering.

    Matija Tomšič;Marija Bešter-Rogač;Andrej Jamnik;Werner Kunz

Frequent Co-Authors

Werner Kunz
Werner Kunz University of Regensburg
Olivier Diat
Olivier Diat Institut de Chimie
Barry W. Ninham
Barry W. Ninham Australian National University
Isabelle Grillo
Isabelle Grillo Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Markus Drechsler
Markus Drechsler University of Bayreuth
Dominik Horinek
Dominik Horinek University of Regensburg
Conxita Solans
Conxita Solans Spanish National Research Council
Jean-Marie Aubry
Jean-Marie Aubry École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille
Stephen T. Hyde
Stephen T. Hyde Australian National University
Lorenz Kienle
Lorenz Kienle Kiel University

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