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Detergents, eye rinses and other products with an on/off switch
08-21-2007 · EurekAlert!Researchers at an American Chemical Society meeting will report the development of an unusual biological detergent, called a Pepfactant, a surfactant made from peptides, protein subunits. Its potential applications range from a laundry detergent that hardly needs a rinse cycle to a non-irritating eye rinse to increasing the amount of oil that companies can extract from a well. The development will be described in August at the society's national meeting in Boston.
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