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Ionic Liquid As Surfactant In Pickering Emulsions Stabilised By Silica Particles. (2024)
Thesis
Ihebie, C. (2024). Ionic Liquid As Surfactant In Pickering Emulsions Stabilised By Silica Particles. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5077513

Investigations were carried out on the use of ionic liquid as an adsorbing surfactant in Pickering emulsions stabilised by silica particles. Colloidal silica nanoparticles, Ludox CL (positively charged) and Ludox HS-30 (negatively charged), and 2 μm... Read More about Ionic Liquid As Surfactant In Pickering Emulsions Stabilised By Silica Particles..

3D printing of Pickering emulsions, Pickering foams and capillary suspensions – A review of stabilization, rheology and applications (2024)
Journal Article
Tyowua, A. T., Harbottle, D., & Binks, B. P. (2024). 3D printing of Pickering emulsions, Pickering foams and capillary suspensions – A review of stabilization, rheology and applications. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 332, Article 103274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cis.2024.103274

Pickering emulsions and foams as well as capillary suspensions are becoming increasingly more popular as inks for 3D printing. However, a lack of understanding of the bulk rheological properties needed for their application in 3D printing is potentia... Read More about 3D printing of Pickering emulsions, Pickering foams and capillary suspensions – A review of stabilization, rheology and applications.

Cholic Acid/Glutathione-Assembled Nanofibrils for Stabilizing Pickering Emulsion Biogels (2024)
Journal Article
Bi, W., Le, M., Jia, Y. G., Bao, Z., Sun, S., Wang, C., Binks, B. P., & Chen, Y. (online). Cholic Acid/Glutathione-Assembled Nanofibrils for Stabilizing Pickering Emulsion Biogels. Small, https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202403667

Achieving the delicate balance required for both emulsion and gel characteristics, while also imparting biological functionality in gelled emulsions, poses a significant challenge. Herein, Pickering emulsion biogels stabilized is reported by novel bi... Read More about Cholic Acid/Glutathione-Assembled Nanofibrils for Stabilizing Pickering Emulsion Biogels.

Surfactant-Nanoparticle Formulations at Calcite-Water and Oil-Water Interfaces for Enhanced Oil Recovery (2023)
Thesis
Rezvani, H. Surfactant-Nanoparticle Formulations at Calcite-Water and Oil-Water Interfaces for Enhanced Oil Recovery. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4564632

There is a growing interest in the development of new and innovative enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technologies to reduce the environmental impact of oil production. Surfactant flooding is a well-established EOR method but mainly suffers from high adso... Read More about Surfactant-Nanoparticle Formulations at Calcite-Water and Oil-Water Interfaces for Enhanced Oil Recovery.

Competition between hydrogen bonding and electrostatic repulsion in pH-switchable emulsions (2023)
Journal Article
Lv, M., Shi, J., Binks, B. P., Jiang, J., & Cui, Z. (2023). Competition between hydrogen bonding and electrostatic repulsion in pH-switchable emulsions. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 390(B), Article 123095. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2023.123095

Electrostatic interactions and hydrogen bonding play important roles in the stabilization of self-assembled systems. However, the competition between hydrogen bonding and electrostatic repulsion in emulsions hasn't been reported. Herein, we report on... Read More about Competition between hydrogen bonding and electrostatic repulsion in pH-switchable emulsions.

Biomolecular 1D Necklace-like Nanostructures Tailoring 2D Janus Interfaces for Controllable 3D Enteric Biomaterials (2023)
Journal Article
Wan, Y., Liu, H., Chen, Z., Wu, C., Zhong, Q., Wang, R., Feng, W., Chen, X., Zhang, J., Wang, T., Zhang, Z., & Binks, B. P. (2023). Biomolecular 1D Necklace-like Nanostructures Tailoring 2D Janus Interfaces for Controllable 3D Enteric Biomaterials. ACS Nano, 17(6), 5620–5631. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c11507

Construction of well-ordered two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) assemblies using one-dimensional (1D) units is a hallmark of many biointerfaces such as skin. Mimicking the art of difunctional properties of biointerfaces, which skin exhib... Read More about Biomolecular 1D Necklace-like Nanostructures Tailoring 2D Janus Interfaces for Controllable 3D Enteric Biomaterials.

One-Step Fabrication of Coconut-Like Capsules via Competitive Reactions at an All-Aqueous Interface for Enzyme Immobilization (2023)
Journal Article
Tang, Q., Deng, N., Chen, J., Sun, H., Dong, Y., Zeng, Q., Yuan, H., Binks, B. P., & Meng, T. (2023). One-Step Fabrication of Coconut-Like Capsules via Competitive Reactions at an All-Aqueous Interface for Enzyme Immobilization. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 15(8), 10621–10628. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c19788

A concept of interfacial competitive reaction between biomineralization and alginate gelation at an all-aqueous single-emulsion droplet interface to prepare robust coconut-like capsules (inner hard wall and outer soft wall) is developed. The concept... Read More about One-Step Fabrication of Coconut-Like Capsules via Competitive Reactions at an All-Aqueous Interface for Enzyme Immobilization.

Phase Inversion of Pickering Emulsions Induced by Interfacial Electrostatic Attraction (2023)
Journal Article
Sun, G., Guo, T., Luo, J., Liu, R., Ngai, T., & Binks, B. P. (2023). Phase Inversion of Pickering Emulsions Induced by Interfacial Electrostatic Attraction. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 39(4), 1386-1393. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c02048

Phase inversion of Pickering emulsions from water-in-oil (W/O) to oil-in-water (O/W) is achieved by the formation of an interfacial particle bilayer using negatively charged and positively charged particles dispersed in water and oil, respectively, b... Read More about Phase Inversion of Pickering Emulsions Induced by Interfacial Electrostatic Attraction.

Edible oil-water foamulsions stabilized by vesicle network of sucrose ester (2022)
Journal Article
Zheng, R., Hu, X., Su, C., Jiang, J., Cui, Z., & Binks, B. P. (2023). Edible oil-water foamulsions stabilized by vesicle network of sucrose ester. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 371, Article 121066. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2022.121066

Foamulsions are tri-phase dispersions consisting of oil, water and gas. The stabilizers of foamulsions are typically single surfactants or their mixtures. However, foamulsions stabilized by molecular surfactants are usually unstable against long term... Read More about Edible oil-water foamulsions stabilized by vesicle network of sucrose ester.

Fabrication of Stable Oleofoams with Sorbitan Ester Surfactants (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, Y., & Binks, B. P. (2022). Fabrication of Stable Oleofoams with Sorbitan Ester Surfactants. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 38(48), 14779–14788. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c02413

Sorbitan esters have been extensively used as surfactants to stabilize emulsions in many fields. However, the preparation of an oleofoam with sorbitan ester alone has not been reported. Here, we apply a novel protocol to fabricate stable oleofoams of... Read More about Fabrication of Stable Oleofoams with Sorbitan Ester Surfactants.