Janus-Like Pickering Emulsions And Their Controllable Coalescence

Condensed Matter journal club

Janus-Like Pickering Emulsions And Their Controllable Coalescence

  • Event time: 11:30am
  • Event date: 4th April 2014
  • Speaker: Dongyu Cai (Formerly School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
  • Location: Room 2511,

Event details

Abstract

Janus-like emulsions stabilized by OH- and polydopamine (PDA) particles were realized. The OH- and particle occupied areas on emulsion droplet surfaces are spatially separated. Via controlling the pH and ionic strength, the coalescence of Janus-like emulsion droplets could be manipulated.
Chemical Communications 49 10871-10873 (2013)
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Authors

Jie Xu, Aijing Ma, Tianqing Liu, Chunli Lu, Dayang Wang, Haolan Xu

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