Albright & Wilson Limited

Novo Nordisk A/s

John Hawkins

Edward T Messenger

William John Nicholson

Mads Lykke

Michael Blezard

Boyd William Grover

Michael John Williams

Philip Chadwick

Aqueous structured surfactants, e.g., lamellar, or preferably spherulitic systems optionally containing suspended solids are used as functional fluids, such as drilling fluids, cutting fluids, hydraulic fluids, heat transfer fluids, construction muds and lubricants. A composition consisting essentially of: water; a surfactant or mixture of surfactants present in a concentration sufficient to form a mobile spherulitic or dispersed lamellar phase in the absence of an electrolyte; and a substantially water insoluble functional material, suspended in the composition, the composition being substantially free from electrolyte.

Functional fluids and liquid cleaning compositions and suspending media

A liquid detergent composition containing water; surfactant in a concentration which would in the absence of electrolyte form a pourable hexagonal, or cubic phase at 20.degree. C.; and sufficient dissolved electrolyte to form a substantially Newtonian or optically isotropic liquid.

Concentrated aqueous surfactant compositions

Method for preparing stabilized enzyme dispersion

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