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Cholic Acid/Glutathione-Assembled Nanofibrils for Stabilizing Pickering Emulsion Biogels (2024)
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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.

Pickering emulsion droplets and solid microspheres acting synergistically for continuous-flow cascade reactions (2024)
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Zhang, M., Ettelaie, R., Li, T., Yang, J., Dong, L., Xue, N., Binks, B. P., Cheng, F., & Yang, H. (2024). Pickering emulsion droplets and solid microspheres acting synergistically for continuous-flow cascade reactions. Nature Catalysis, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-024-01110-x

Integration of multiple incompatible catalysts in one continuous-flow reaction system is of paramount significance for green synthetic chemistry. Here we develop a continuous-flow cascade catalytic system by co-packing micrometre-sized Pickering emul... Read More about Pickering emulsion droplets and solid microspheres acting synergistically for continuous-flow cascade reactions.

Competition between hydrogen bonding and electrostatic repulsion in pH-switchable emulsions (2023)
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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.

Light-Driven Spatiotemporal Pickering Emulsion Droplet Manipulation Enabled by Plasmonic Hybrid Microgels (2023)
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Guan, X., Cheng, G., Ho, Y. P., Binks, B. P., & Ngai, T. (2023). Light-Driven Spatiotemporal Pickering Emulsion Droplet Manipulation Enabled by Plasmonic Hybrid Microgels. Small, 19(47), Article 2304207. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202304207

The past decades have witnessed the development of various stimuli-responsive materials with tailored functionalities, enabling droplet manipulation through external force fields. Among different strategies, light exhibits excellent flexibility for c... Read More about Light-Driven Spatiotemporal Pickering Emulsion Droplet Manipulation Enabled by Plasmonic Hybrid Microgels.

Highly efficient and recyclable monolithic bioreactor for interfacial enzyme catalysis (2023)
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Yin, Z., Zhou, Y., Liu, X., Zhang, S., & Binks, B. P. (2023). Highly efficient and recyclable monolithic bioreactor for interfacial enzyme catalysis. Journal of colloid and interface science, 648, 308-316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2023.06.009

Hypothesis: Biocatalysts are key to the realization of all bioconversions in nature. However, the difficulty of combining the biocatalyst and other chemicals in one system limits their application in artificial reaction systems. Although some effort,... Read More about Highly efficient and recyclable monolithic bioreactor for interfacial enzyme catalysis.

Fabrication of Poly(ε-caprolactone)-embedded Lignin-Chitosan Nanocomposite Porous Scaffolds from Pickering Emulsions (2023)
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Li, Y., Peng, Y., Hu, Y., Liu, J., Yuan, T., Zhou, W., Dong, X., Wang, C., Binks, B. P., & Yang, Z. (2023). Fabrication of Poly(ε-caprolactone)-embedded Lignin-Chitosan Nanocomposite Porous Scaffolds from Pickering Emulsions. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 39(20), 6947-6956. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c02942

Poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL)-incorporated lignin-chitosan biomass-based nanocomposite porous scaffolds have been effectively prepared by templating oil-in-water Pickering high internal phase emulsions (HIPEs). PCL is dissolved in oil and chitosan and l... Read More about Fabrication of Poly(ε-caprolactone)-embedded Lignin-Chitosan Nanocomposite Porous Scaffolds from Pickering Emulsions.

Edible oil-in-water emulsions stabilized by hydrophile–lipophile balanced sucrose ester (2023)
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Hu, X., Binks, B. P., & Cui, Z. (in press). Edible oil-in-water emulsions stabilized by hydrophile–lipophile balanced sucrose ester. Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, https://doi.org/10.1002/aocs.12698

Conventional emulsions are mostly stabilized by surfactants and for stabilization of oil-in-water emulsions the surfactants should be hydrophilic or with HLB numbers larger than seven. In this work, we report that edible oil-in-water emulsions can al... Read More about Edible oil-in-water emulsions stabilized by hydrophile–lipophile balanced sucrose ester.

Biomolecular 1D Necklace-like Nanostructures Tailoring 2D Janus Interfaces for Controllable 3D Enteric Biomaterials (2023)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Smart Emulsions Stabilized by a Multi-headgroup Surfactant Tolerant to High Concentrations of Acids and Salts (2023)
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Zhang, W., Binks, B. P., Jiang, J., & Cui, Z. (2023). Smart Emulsions Stabilized by a Multi-headgroup Surfactant Tolerant to High Concentrations of Acids and Salts. Angewandte Chemie, https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202310743

Retaining emulsions stable at high acidity and salinity is still a great challenge. Here, we report a novel multi-headgroup surfactant (C3H7−NH+(C10COOH)2, di-UAPAc) which can be reversibly transformed among cationic, anionic and zwitterionic forms u... Read More about Smart Emulsions Stabilized by a Multi-headgroup Surfactant Tolerant to High Concentrations of Acids and Salts.

Edible oil-water foamulsions stabilized by vesicle network of sucrose ester (2022)
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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)
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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.

Double scaffold networks regulate edible Pickering emulsion gel for designing thermally actuated 4D printing (2022)
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Jiang, Q., Binks, B. P., & Meng, Z. (2022). Double scaffold networks regulate edible Pickering emulsion gel for designing thermally actuated 4D printing. Food Hydrocolloids, 133, Article 107969. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodhyd.2022.107969

3D and 4D printing of emulsion gels can be achieved by controlling the continuous phase and the interface. Edible high internal phase water-in-oil Pickering emulsion gels (PEGs) with a tunable double scaffold network structure are designed and prepar... Read More about Double scaffold networks regulate edible Pickering emulsion gel for designing thermally actuated 4D printing.

Pickering emulsion droplet-based biomimetic microreactors for continuous flow cascade reactions (2022)
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Zhang, M., Ettelaie, R., Dong, L., Li, X., Li, T., Zhang, X., Binks, B. P., & Yang, H. (2022). Pickering emulsion droplet-based biomimetic microreactors for continuous flow cascade reactions. Nature communications, 13, Article 475. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28100-6

A continuous flow cascade of multi-step catalytic reactions is a cutting-edge concept to revolutionize stepwise catalytic synthesis yet is still challenging in practical applications. Herein, a method for practical one-pot cascade catalysis is develo... Read More about Pickering emulsion droplet-based biomimetic microreactors for continuous flow cascade reactions.

Charge-Reversible Surfactant-Induced Transformation Between Oil-in-Dispersion Emulsions and Pickering Emulsions (2021)
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Jiang, J., Yu, S., Zhang, W., Zhang, H., Cui, Z., Xia, W., & Binks, B. P. (2021). Charge-Reversible Surfactant-Induced Transformation Between Oil-in-Dispersion Emulsions and Pickering Emulsions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 60(21), 11793-11798. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202102098

A novel charge-reversible surfactant, (CH ) N-(CH ) COONa, was designed and synthesized, which together with silica nanoparticles can stabilize a smart n-octane-in-water emulsion responsive to pH. At high pH (9.3) the surfactant is anionic carboxylat... Read More about Charge-Reversible Surfactant-Induced Transformation Between Oil-in-Dispersion Emulsions and Pickering Emulsions.

A novel strategy to fabricate stable oil foams with sucrose ester surfactant (2021)
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Liu, Y., & Binks, B. P. (2021). A novel strategy to fabricate stable oil foams with sucrose ester surfactant. Journal of colloid and interface science, 594, 204-216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2021.03.021

Hypothesis: Can a mixture of sucrose ester surfactant in vegetable oil be aerated to yield stable oleofoams? Is foaming achievable from one-phase molecular solutions and/or two-phase crystal dispersions? Does cooling a foam after formation induce sur... Read More about A novel strategy to fabricate stable oil foams with sucrose ester surfactant.

Highly Selective Catalysis at the Liquid-Liquid Interface Microregion (2021)
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Zhang, Y., Ettelaie, R., Binks, B. P., & Yang, H. (2021). Highly Selective Catalysis at the Liquid-Liquid Interface Microregion. ACS Catalysis, 1485-1494. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.0c04604

Liquid-liquid interfaces in principle have the potential to regulate the selectivity of chemical reactions because of highly anisotropic microenvironments but have not yet been well exploited. Here, we present a liquid-liquid interface-based strategy... Read More about Highly Selective Catalysis at the Liquid-Liquid Interface Microregion.

Effect of Particle Wettability and Particle Concentration on the Enzymatic Dehydration of n-Octanaloxime in Pickering Emulsions (2020)
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Bago Rodriguez, A. M., Schober, L., Hinzmann, A., Gröger, H., & Binks, B. P. (2020). Effect of Particle Wettability and Particle Concentration on the Enzymatic Dehydration of n-Octanaloxime in Pickering Emulsions. Angewandte Chemie, 59, https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202013171

© 2020 The Authors. Angewandte Chemie International Edition published by Wiley-VCH GmbH Pickering emulsion systems have emerged as platforms for the synthesis of organic molecules in biphasic biocatalysis. Herein, the catalytic performance was evalua... Read More about Effect of Particle Wettability and Particle Concentration on the Enzymatic Dehydration of n-Octanaloxime in Pickering Emulsions.

Light‐Responsive, Reversible Emulsification and Demulsification of Oil‐in‐Water Pickering Emulsions for Catalysis (2020)
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Li, Z., Shi, Y., Zhu, A., Zhao, Y., Wang, H., Binks, B. P., & Wang, J. (in press). Light‐Responsive, Reversible Emulsification and Demulsification of Oil‐in‐Water Pickering Emulsions for Catalysis. Angewandte Chemie, https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202010750

Pickering emulsions are an excellent platform for interfacial catalysis. However, developing simple and efficient strategies to achieve product separation and catalyst and emulsifier recovery is still a challenge. Herein, we report the reversible tra... Read More about Light‐Responsive, Reversible Emulsification and Demulsification of Oil‐in‐Water Pickering Emulsions for Catalysis.