TY - BOOK AU - Rania Elsayed Ali Morsi AU - Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Alsabagh , AU - Maher Zaki Elsabee , AU - Yasser Mohamed Moustafa , TI - Preparation of surfactants based on chitin and chitosan and their applications in petroleum industry / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Rania Elsayed Ali Morsi , KW - Chitosan KW - Hydrophobic modifications KW - Surfactant N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Science - Department of Physical Chemistry; Issued also as CD N2 - This work deals with the extraction of the natural polymer chitin from local sources and its deacetylation into chitosan , a more useful soluble polymer . Chitosan was found to be inactive at interfaces but hydrophobic modification using different aliphatic and aromatic substituents rendered the various products into surface active polymers ER -