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Adsorption of carboxylic modified latex particles at liquid interfaces studied by the gel trapping technique

Al-Shehri, Hamza; Horozov, Tommy S.; Paunov, Vesselin N.

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Hamza Al-Shehri

Vesselin N. Paunov



Abstract

We have studied how carboxylic modified latex (CML) microparticles adsorb at liquid surfaces and the preferred type of emulsion they can stabilise depending on the particle size and the surface density of carboxylic groups. We measured the particle contact angle by using the gel trapping technique (GTT) for CML particles adsorbed at air–water and oil–water interfaces. Using this method we obtained scanning electron microscopy (SEM) micrographs of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) replicas of the liquid interface with the particles, where the PDMS replicates the non-polar phase and measured the particle contact angle. We discovered that the particle wettability correlates well with the surface density of the carboxylic groups but is not very sensitive to the presence of electrolyte in the aqueous phase and the value of the particle zeta potential. We demonstrated that CML microparticles with a high surface density of COOH groups stabilise oil-in-water (O/W) emulsions while those with the lowest coverage of COOH groups favour the formation of water-in-oil (W/O) emulsions. We found that this corresponds to a change of the CML particle contact angle from lower than 90° to higher than 90° upon decrease of the surface density of COOH groups. The findings confirm that the surface density of polar groups has a much bigger effect on the particle wettability and the preferred emulsion than the particle surface charge and zeta potential. Our results on the type of stabilised Pickering emulsion agree with other experimental studies with different particle materials. We propose an alternative explanation for the link between the particle contact angle and the type of stabilised Pickering emulsion.

Citation

Al-Shehri, H., Horozov, T. S., & Paunov, V. N. (2014). Adsorption of carboxylic modified latex particles at liquid interfaces studied by the gel trapping technique. Soft matter, 10(34), 6433-6441. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4sm01030b

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 17, 2014
Online Publication Date Jul 22, 2014
Publication Date Sep 14, 2014
Deposit Date Jul 29, 2015
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Soft matter
Print ISSN 1744-683X
Electronic ISSN 1744-6848
Publisher Royal Society of Chemistry
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 10
Issue 34
Pages 6433-6441
DOI https://doi.org/10.1039/c4sm01030b
Keywords Gel trapping technique; Adsorption; Carboxylic modified latex particles
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/377138
Publisher URL http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2014/SM/C4SM01030B#!divAbstract
Additional Information Author's accepted manuscript of article published in: Soft matter, 2014, issue 34

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