Pickering Emulsions Stabilized by Soft Microgels: Influence of the Emulsification Process on Particle Interfacial Organization and Emulsion Properties

Autor: Véronique Schmitt, Mélanie Wolfs, Elisabeth Sellier, Véronique Lapeyre, Valérie Ravaine, Florent Pinaud, Mathieu Destribats
Přispěvatelé: Centre de recherches Paul Pascal (CRPP), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut des Sciences Moléculaires (ISM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie et de Physique de Bordeaux (ENSCPB)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux 4-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC), Centre de Ressources en Microscopie Electronique et Microanalyse (CREMEN), Université de Bordeaux (UB)
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Langmuir
Langmuir, American Chemical Society, 2013, 29, pp. 12367-12374. ⟨10.1021/la402921b⟩
ISSN: 1520-5827
0743-7463
DOI: 10.1021/la402921b
Popis: 8 pages; International audience; This work reports a new evidence of the versatility of soft responsive microgels as stabilizers for Pickering emulsions. The organization of microgels at the oil−water interface is a function of the preparation pathway. The present results show that emulsification energy can be used as a trigger to modify microgel deformation at the oil−water interface and their packing density: high shear rates bring strong flattening of the microgels, whereas low shear rates lead to dense monolayers, where the microgels are laterally compressed. As a consequence, the resulting emulsions have opposite behavior in terms of flocculation, which arises from bridging between neighboring drops and is strongly dependent on their surface coverage. This strategy can be applied to any microgel which can sufficiently adsorb at low shear rates, i.e. small microgels or lightly cross-linked ones. The control of the organization of microgels at the interface does not only modify emulsion end-use properties but also constitutes a new tool for the development of Janus-type microgels, obtained by chemical modification of the adsorbed microgels.
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