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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.

Light-Driven Spatiotemporal Pickering Emulsion Droplet Manipulation Enabled by Plasmonic Hybrid Microgels (2023)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
Li, Y., Peng, Y., Hu, Y., Liu, J., Yuan, T., Zhou, W., …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)
Journal Article
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.

Smart Emulsions Stabilized by a Multi-headgroup Surfactant Tolerant to High Concentrations of Acids and Salts (2023)
Journal Article
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.