Description
General description
TWEEN 80 is a polyethylene sorbitol ester and has a molecular weight of 1.31 kDa. It is useful as a stabilizer and emulsifier commercially. It is known to be used in ice-cream for its drying property.
Application
TWEEN® 80 has been used:
in Listeria monocytogenes enumeration using filtration method
as a hydrophilic emulsifier in the preparation of W1/O/W2 emulsion
as a component of 7H9 plus oleic albumin dextrose catalase (OADC) in Mycobacterium Bovis bacillus Calmette–Guerin (BCG) Pasteur strain culturing
Non-ionic detergent used for selective protein extraction and isolation of nuclei from mammalian cell lines.
Legal Information
TWEEN is a registered trademark of Croda International PLC