Professor Bernie Binks' Outputs (154)

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.

Pickering emulsion droplets and solid microspheres acting synergistically for continuous-flow cascade reactions (2024)
Journal Article
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.

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.

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., 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)
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.

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)
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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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Edible surfactants at fluid-fluid interfaces (2021)
Thesis
Liu, Y. Edible surfactants at fluid-fluid interfaces. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223435

This thesis probes into the adsorption properties of several edible surfactants/fats at a range of fluid-fluid interfaces, e.g. air-oil, air-water and water-oil. Based on this, various colloidal materials are fabricated including aqueous and oil foam... Read More about Edible surfactants at fluid-fluid interfaces.

Effect of Particle Wettability and Particle Concentration on the Enzymatic Dehydration of n-Octanaloxime in Pickering Emulsions (2020)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Foaming honey: particle or molecular foaming agent? (2020)
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Tyowua, A. T., Echendu, A. M., Yiase, S. G., Adejo, S. O., Leke, L., Mbawuaga, E. M., & Binks, B. P. (in press). Foaming honey: particle or molecular foaming agent?. Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1080/01932691.2020.1845718

Honey foam was prepared using particle (precipitated CaCO3) or molecular (sodium lauryl sulfate) foaming agent. We noted the foam volume and the time it took a foam sample to collapse completely so as to determine the best foaming agent. Foams were p... Read More about Foaming honey: particle or molecular foaming agent?.

Catalysis in Pickering emulsions (2020)
Journal Article
Rodriguez, A. M. B., & Binks, B. P. (2020). Catalysis in Pickering emulsions. Soft matter, 16(45), 10221-10243. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0sm01636e

Particle-stabilised or Pickering emulsions are versatile systems. In the past 10 years a new application has emerged in the field of catalysis to use them as vehicles to carry out catalytic reactions, allowing a more environmentally friendly process... Read More about Catalysis in Pickering emulsions.