期刊
JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
卷 460, 期 -, 页码 247-257出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2015.08.074
关键词
Emulsion stability; Pickering Network; Wax crystallization; Interfacial crystallization; Coalescence; Sedimentation; Microstructure; Contact angle
资金
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
The impact of cooling rate and mixing on the long-term kinetic stability of wax-stabilized water-in-oil emulsions was investigated. Four cooling/mixing protocols were investigated: cooling from 45 degrees C to either 25 degrees C or 4 degrees C with/without stirring and two cooling rates - slow (1 degrees C/min) and fast (5 C/min). The sedimentation behaviour of the emulsions was significantly affected by cooling protocol. Stirring was critical to the stability of all emulsions, with statically-cooled (no stirring) emulsions suffering from extensive aqueous phase separation. Emulsions stirred while cooling showed sedimentation of a waxy emulsion layer leaving a clear oil layer at the top, with a smaller separation and droplet size distribution at 4 degrees C compared to 25 degrees C, indicating the importance of the amount of crystallized wax on emulsion stability. Light microscopy revealed that crystallized wax appeared both on the droplet surface and in the continuous phase, suggesting that stirring ensured dispersibility of the water droplets during cooling as the wax was crystallizing. Wax crystallization on the droplet surface provided stability against droplet coalescence while continuous phase wax crystals minimized inter-droplet collisions. The key novel aspect of this research is in the simplicity to tailor the spatial distribution of wax crystals, i.e., either at the droplet surface or in the continuous phase via use of a surfactant and judicious stirring and/or cooling. Knowledge gained from this research can be applied to develop strategies for long-term storage stability of crystal-stabilized W/O emulsions. (C ) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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