Controlling Pickering emulsion destabilisation: a route to fabricating new materials by phase inversion

Title: Controlling Pickering emulsion destabilisation: a route to fabricating new materials by phase inversion
Creator: Whitby, Catherine P.; Wanless, Erica J.
Relation: ARC.DP120102305
Relation: Materials Vol. 9, Issue 8
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma9080626
Publisher: MDPI AG
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2016
Description: The aim of this paper is to review the key findings about how particle-stabilised (or Pickering) emulsions respond to stress and break down. Over the last ten years, new insights have been gained into how particles attached to droplet (and bubble) surfaces alter the destabilisation mechanisms in emulsions. The conditions under which chemical demulsifiers displace, or detach, particles from the interface were established. Mass transfer between drops and the continuous phase was shown to disrupt the layers of particles attached to drop surfaces. The criteria for causing coalescence by applying physical stress (shear or compression) to Pickering emulsions were characterised. These findings are being used to design the structures of materials formed by breaking Pickering emulsions.
Subject: Pickering emulsion; particle-stabilised emulsion; destabilisation
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1319245
Identifier: uon:23812
Identifier: ISSN:1996-1944
Language: eng
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