Phase inversion in Pickering emulsions: A new perspective.
Phase inversion in Pickering emulsions: A new perspective.
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 16th October 2017
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Cream is made up of a dispersion of fat droplets within an aqueous liquid. When cream is churned to make butter the fat droplets end up coalescing to form a continuous medium which then traps pockets of the aqueous liquid. This process is known as inversion.
Within simple models of cream (where milk proteins are replaced by solid particles), inversion is found to occur as a function of the time spent churning the cream. The ideas that have been used to explain this phenomena are a bit dubious. I combine experimental data consisting of micrographs and image analysis with rheological experiments to give an alternative explanation.
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