All Outputs (12)

Adsorption and crystallization of particles at the air–water interface induced by minute amounts of surfactant (2018)
Journal Article
Anyfantakis, M., Vialetto, J., Best, A., Auernhammer, G. K., Butt, H. J., Binks, B. P., & Baigl, D. (2018). Adsorption and crystallization of particles at the air–water interface induced by minute amounts of surfactant. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 34(50), 15526-15536. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b03233

Controlling the organization of particles at liquid-gas interfaces usually relies on multiphasic preparations and external applied forces. Here, we show that micromolar amounts of a conventional cationic surfactant induce, in a single step, both adso... Read More about Adsorption and crystallization of particles at the air–water interface induced by minute amounts of surfactant.

Quantifying surface properties of silica particles by combining Hansen Parameters and Reichardt's Dye indicator data (2018)
Journal Article
Stauch, C., Süß, S., Luxenhofer, R., Binks, B. P., Segets, D., & Mandel, K. (2018). Quantifying surface properties of silica particles by combining Hansen Parameters and Reichardt's Dye indicator data. Particle and Particle Systems Characterization, 35(12), Article 1800328. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppsc.201800328

To obtain quantitative understanding of the effects of a chemisorbed organic modification on the surface of particles, the use of Reichardt's dye (RD) and Hansen solubility parameter (HSP) is discussed, whereby the S should be understood in terms of... Read More about Quantifying surface properties of silica particles by combining Hansen Parameters and Reichardt's Dye indicator data.

Shape evolution and bubble formation of acoustically levitated drops (2018)
Journal Article
Di, W., Zhang, Z., Li, L., Lin, K., Li, J., Li, X., Binks, B. P., Chen, X., & Zang, D. (2018). Shape evolution and bubble formation of acoustically levitated drops. Physical Review Fluids, 3, Article 103606. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.3.103606

In this study, we investigated the shape evolution and bubble formation of acoustically levitated drops upon increasing the sound intensity. Here, a levitated liquid drop evolves progressively from an oblate spheroidal shape to a flattened film to a... Read More about Shape evolution and bubble formation of acoustically levitated drops.

Controlled actuation of liquid marbles on a dielectric (2018)
Journal Article
Fu, X., Zhang, Y., Yuan, H., Binks, B. P., & Shum, H. C. (2018). Controlled actuation of liquid marbles on a dielectric. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10(41), 34822-34827. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b13111

Motivated by the great potential of droplet microreactors for chemical and biological applications, a general and robust method utilizing an electric field is developed for sustained, directional and two-dimensional manipulation of nonwetting droplet... Read More about Controlled actuation of liquid marbles on a dielectric.

Inducing drop to bubble transformation via resonance in ultrasound (2018)
Journal Article
Zang, D., Li, L., Di, W., Zhang, Z., Ding, C., Chen, Z., Shen, W., Binks, B. P., & Geng, X. (2018). Inducing drop to bubble transformation via resonance in ultrasound. Nature communications, 9(1), Article 3546. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05949-0

Bubble formation plays an important role in industries concerned with mineral flotation, food, cosmetics, and materials, which requires additional energy to produce the liquid–gas interfaces. A naturally observed fact is, owing to the effect of surfa... Read More about Inducing drop to bubble transformation via resonance in ultrasound.

Novel stabilisation of emulsions with polyelectrolyte complexes (2018)
Thesis
Bago Rodríguez, A. M. (2018). Novel stabilisation of emulsions with polyelectrolyte complexes. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221229

The concept of a novel stabiliser of oil-water emulsions has been put forward, being the polyelectrolyte complex (PEC) formed between oppositely charged water-soluble polymers in cases where either polymer alone is incapable of stabilising an emulsio... Read More about Novel stabilisation of emulsions with polyelectrolyte complexes.

Self-propulsion of water-supported liquid marbles filled with sulfuric acid (2018)
Journal Article
Frenkel, M., Dombrovsky, L., Multanen, V., Danchuk, V., Legchenkova, I., Shoval, S., Bormashenko, Y., Binks, B. P., & Bormashenko, E. (2018). Self-propulsion of water-supported liquid marbles filled with sulfuric acid. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 122(32), 7936-7942. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b06136

Self-propulsion of liquid marbles filled with sulfuric acid and coated with hydrophobic fluorosilica powder on a water surface is reported. The prolonged self-propulsion of marbles occurs over a couple of minutes with a typical velocity of the center... Read More about Self-propulsion of water-supported liquid marbles filled with sulfuric acid.

High-Internal-Phase Pickering emulsions stabilized solely by Peanut-Protein-Isolate microgel particles with multiple potential applications (2018)
Journal Article
Jiao, B., Shi, A., Wang, Q., & Binks, B. P. (2018). High-Internal-Phase Pickering emulsions stabilized solely by Peanut-Protein-Isolate microgel particles with multiple potential applications. Angewandte Chemie, 57(30), 9274-9278. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201801350

High‐internal‐phase Pickering emulsions have various applications in materials science. However, the biocompatibility and biodegradability of inorganic or synthetic stabilizers limit their applications. Herein, we describe high‐internal‐phase Pickeri... Read More about High-Internal-Phase Pickering emulsions stabilized solely by Peanut-Protein-Isolate microgel particles with multiple potential applications.

Van der Waals Emulsions: Emulsions Stabilized by Surface-Inactive, Hydrophilic Particles via van der Waals Attraction (2018)
Journal Article
Marina, P. F., Cheng, C., Sedev, R., Stocco, A., Binks, B. P., & Wang, D. (2018). Van der Waals Emulsions: Emulsions Stabilized by Surface-Inactive, Hydrophilic Particles via van der Waals Attraction. Angewandte Chemie, 57(30), 9510-9514. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201805410

Surface-inactive, highly hydrophilic particles are utilized to effectively and reversibly stabilize oil-in-water emulsions. This is a result of attractive van der Waals forces between particles and oil droplets in water, which are sufficient to trap... Read More about Van der Waals Emulsions: Emulsions Stabilized by Surface-Inactive, Hydrophilic Particles via van der Waals Attraction.

Novel oil-in-water emulsions stabilised by ionic surfactant and similarly charged nanoparticles at very low concentrations (2018)
Journal Article
Xu, M., Jiang, J., Pei, X., Song, B., Cui, Z., & Binks, B. P. (2018). Novel oil-in-water emulsions stabilised by ionic surfactant and similarly charged nanoparticles at very low concentrations. Angewandte Chemie, 57(26), 7738-7742. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201802266

Novel oil-in-water (O/W) emulsions are prepared which are stabilised by a cationic surfactant in combination with similarly charged alumina nanoparticles at concentrations as low as 10-5 M and 10-4 wt.%, respectively. The surfactant molecules adsorb... Read More about Novel oil-in-water emulsions stabilised by ionic surfactant and similarly charged nanoparticles at very low concentrations.

Phase inversion of colored Pickering emulsions stabilized by organic pigment particle mixtures (2018)
Journal Article
Binks, B. P., & Olusanya, S. O. (2018). Phase inversion of colored Pickering emulsions stabilized by organic pigment particle mixtures. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 34(17), 5040-5051. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b00715

Pickering emulsions stabilized by a mixture of coloured organic pigment particles of different hydrophobicity have been investigated at equal oil:water ratio and a fixed overall particle concentration by several complementary methods. Transitional ph... Read More about Phase inversion of colored Pickering emulsions stabilized by organic pigment particle mixtures.

Heterogeneous Pd catalysts as emulsifiers in Pickering emulsions for integrated multistep synthesis in flow chemistry (2018)
Journal Article
Hiebler, K., Lichtenegger, G. J., Maier, M. C., Park, E. S., Gonzales-Groom, R., Binks, B. P., & Gruber-Woelfler, H. (2018). Heterogeneous Pd catalysts as emulsifiers in Pickering emulsions for integrated multistep synthesis in flow chemistry. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 14, 648-658. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.14.52

Within the “Compartmentalised Smart Factory” approach of the ONE-FLOW project the implementation of different catalysts in “compartments” provided by Pickering emulsions and their application in continuous flow is targeted. We present here the develo... Read More about Heterogeneous Pd catalysts as emulsifiers in Pickering emulsions for integrated multistep synthesis in flow chemistry.