Making and breaking bridges in Pickering emulsions
Making and breaking bridges in Pickering emulsions
- Event time: 1:00pm
- Event date: 27th January 2014
- Speaker: David French (Formerly School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Droplets in an emulsion require some form of stabiliser to prevent coalescence. Traditionally this stabiliser has been a molecular surfactant. However, it is also possible to stabilise emulsions using mesoscopic solid particles, and this can lead to interesting behaviours not possible with conventional surfactants. For example, it is possible for a single particle to be shared by two droplets, creating particle "bridges", which can cause the emulsion to aggregate. I will talk about our efforts to understand the causes of this phenomena, and the ways in which we can control it.
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