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Benyaya M, Bolzinger MA, Chevalier Y, Ensenat S, Bordes C. Pickering emulsions stabilized with differently charged particles. SOFT MATTER 2023. [PMID: 37318280 DOI: 10.1039/d3sm00305a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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For addressing health issues and ecological concerns, the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries are facing the challenge of designing emulsions without the use of surfactants. Emulsions stabilized by colloidal particles, known as Pickering emulsions, are promising in this matter. In this article, three different types of particles (neutral, anionic and cationic) are used alone or in binary mixtures as stabilizers of Pickering emulsions. The influence of the particles' charge on the emulsions' properties and the synergies between the different types of particles are studied. It is demonstrated that the kinetics of adsorption of the particles at the water/oil interface control the coverage and their organization at the droplet surface, rather than their interactions after adsorption. Binary mixtures of differently charged particles are a powerful way to control the droplet coverage and the particle loading in the emulsions. In particular, the combination of anionic and cationic particles led to smaller droplets and higher particle coverage of emulsion droplets.
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- Mathis Benyaya
- Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5007, Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Génie des Procédés et de Génie Pharmaceutique (LAGEPP), 43 bd du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622, Villeurbanne, France.
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- Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5007, Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Génie des Procédés et de Génie Pharmaceutique (LAGEPP), 43 bd du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622, Villeurbanne, France.
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- Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5007, Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Génie des Procédés et de Génie Pharmaceutique (LAGEPP), 43 bd du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622, Villeurbanne, France.
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- Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5007, Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Génie des Procédés et de Génie Pharmaceutique (LAGEPP), 43 bd du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622, Villeurbanne, France.
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- Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5007, Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Génie des Procédés et de Génie Pharmaceutique (LAGEPP), 43 bd du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622, Villeurbanne, France.
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Destabilization of Pickering emulsions by interfacial transport of mutually soluble solute. J Colloid Interface Sci 2023; 633:166-176. [PMID: 36442288 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.10.133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2022] [Revised: 10/21/2022] [Accepted: 10/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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HYPOTHESIS Pickering emulsions (PEs) once formed are highly stable because of very high desorption energies (∼107 kBT) associated with particles adsorbed to the interfaces. The destabilization of PEs is required in many instances for recovery of valuable chemicals, products and active compounds. We propose to exploit interfacial instabilities develop by the addition of different types of solutes to PEs as a route to engineer their destabilization. EXPERIMENTS PEs stabilized by (i) spherical particles, (ii) non-spherical particles, (iii) oppositely charged particle-particle mixtures, and (iv) oppositely charged particle-polyelectrolyte mixtures are formulated. Different types of solutes are added to these highly stable PEs and the macroscopic as well as microscopic changes induced in the PEs is recorded by visual observation and bright field optical microscopy. FINDINGS Our results point to a simple yet robust method to induce destabilization of PEs by transiently perturbing the oil-water interface by transport of a mutually soluble solute across the interface. The generality of the method is demonstrated for different kind of solutes and stabilizers including particles of different sizes (nm to µm), shapes (sphere, spheroids, spherocylinders) and types (polystyrene, metal oxides). The method works for both oil-in-water (o/w) and water-in-oil (w/o) PEs with different kinds of non-polar solvents as oil-phase. However, the method fails when the solute is insoluble in one of the phases of PEs. The study opens up a new approach to destabilization of particle stabilized emulsions.
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Adjustment of Micro- and Macroporosity of ß-TCP Scaffolds Using Solid-Stabilized Foams as Bone Replacement. Bioengineering (Basel) 2023; 10:bioengineering10020256. [PMID: 36829750 PMCID: PMC9952018 DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering10020256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2023] [Revised: 02/07/2023] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 02/17/2023] Open
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To enable rapid osteointegration in bioceramic implants and to give them osteoinductive properties, scaffolds with defined micro- and macroporosity are required. Pores or pore networks promote the integration of cells into the implant, facilitating the supply of nutrients and the removal of metabolic products. In this paper, scaffolds are created from ß-tricalciumphosphate (ß-TCP) and in a novel way, where both the micro- and macroporosity are adjusted simultaneously by the addition of pore-forming polymer particles. The particles used are 10-40 wt%, spherical polymer particles of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) (Ø = 5 µm) and alternatively polymethylsilsesquioxane (PMSQ) (Ø = 2 µm), added in the course of ß-TCP slurry preparation. The arrangement of hydrophobic polymer particles at the interface of air bubbles was incorporated during slurry preparation and foaming of the slurry. The foam structures remain after sintering and lead to the formation of macro-porosity in the scaffolds. Furthermore, decomposition of the polymer particles during thermal debindering results in the formation of an additional network of interconnecting micropores in the stabilizing structures. It is possible to adjust the porosity easily and quickly in a range of 1.2-140 μm with a relatively low organic fraction. The structures thus prepared showed no cytotoxicity nor negative effects on the biocompatibility.
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Madhavan N, Deshpande AP, Mani E, Basavaraj MG. Electrostatic Heteroaggregation: Fundamentals and Applications in Interfacial Engineering. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2023; 39:2112-2134. [PMID: 36727572 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c02681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The aggregation of oppositely charged soft materials (particles, surfactants, polyelectrolytes, etc.) that differ in one or more physical or chemical attributes, broadly referred to as electrostatic heteroaggregation, has been an active area of research for several decades now. While electrostatic heteroaggregation (EHA) is relevant to diverse fields such as environmental engineering, food technology, and pharmaceutical formulations, more recently there has been a resurgence to explore various aspects of this phenomenon in the context of interface stabilization and the development of functional materials. In this Feature Article, we provide an overview of the recent contributions of our group to this exciting field with particular emphasis on fundamental studies of electrostatic heteroaggregation between oppositely charged systems in the bulk, at interfaces, and across the bulk/interface. The influence of the size and shape of particles and the surface charge of heteroaggregates on the formation of Pickering emulsions and their utilization in the development of porous ceramics is discussed.
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- Nithin Madhavan
- Polymer Engineering and Colloid Sciences Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Sardar Patel Road, Adyar, IIT P.O., Chennai600036, India
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- Polymer Engineering and Colloid Sciences Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Sardar Patel Road, Adyar, IIT P.O., Chennai600036, India
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- Polymer Engineering and Colloid Sciences Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Sardar Patel Road, Adyar, IIT P.O., Chennai600036, India
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- Polymer Engineering and Colloid Sciences Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Sardar Patel Road, Adyar, IIT P.O., Chennai600036, India
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Interparticle photo-cross-linkable Pickering emulsions for rapid manufacturing of complex-structured porous ceramic materials. ADV POWDER TECHNOL 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.apt.2022.103638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Sabapathy M, Md KZ, Kumar H, Ramamirtham S, Mani E, Basavaraj MG. Exploiting Heteroaggregation to Quantify the Contact Angle of Charged Colloids at Interfaces. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2022; 38:7433-7441. [PMID: 35678741 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c00348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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We exploit the aggregation between oppositely charged particles to visualize and quantify the equilibrium position of charged colloidal particles at the fluid-water interface. A dispersion of commercially available charge-stabilized nanoparticles was used as the aqueous phase to create oil-water and air-water interfaces. The colloidal particles whose charge was opposite that of the nanoparticles in the aqueous phase were deposited at the chosen fluid-water interface. Heteroaggregation, i.e., aggregation between oppositely charged particles, leads to the deposition of nanoparticles onto the larger particle located at the interface; however, this only occurs on the surface of the particle in contact with the aqueous phase. This selective deposition of nanoparticles on the surfaces of the particles exposed to water enables the distinct visualization of the circular three-phase contact line around the particles positioned at the fluid-water interface. Since the electrostatic association between the nanoparticles and the colloids at interfaces is strong, the nanoparticle assembly on the larger particles is preserved even after being transferred to solid substrates via dip-coating. This facilitates the easy visualization of the contact line by electron microscopy and the determination of the equilibrium contact angle of colloidal particles (θ) at the fluid-water interface. The suitability of the method is demonstrated by the measurement of the three-phase contact angle of positively and negatively charged polystyrene particles located at fluid-water interfaces by considering particles with sizes varying from 220 nm to 8.71 μm. The study highlights the effect of the size ratio between the nanoparticles in the aqueous phase and the colloidal particles on the accuracy of the measurement of θ.
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- Manigandan Sabapathy
- Advanced Colloid and Interfacial Engineering Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, Punjab 140001, India
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- Polymer Engineering and Colloid Science Laboratory (PECS), Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036, India
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- Polymer Engineering and Colloid Science Laboratory (PECS), Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036, India
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- Polymer Engineering and Colloid Science Laboratory (PECS), Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036, India
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- Polymer Engineering and Colloid Science Laboratory (PECS), Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036, India
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- Polymer Engineering and Colloid Science Laboratory (PECS), Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036, India
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Wang C, Rong Y, Zhang B, Yang J. Facile Method for Preparing Hierarchical Al 2O 3-Glass Foam Ceramics with Superior Thermal Insulating Property. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2022; 38:1141-1150. [PMID: 35016499 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Porous ceramics are good candidates for thermal-insulating materials. Glass is a low-cost material that possesses low intrinsic thermal conductivity of less than 10 W·m-1·K-1. However, the mechanical strength of a homogeneous glass material is fairly low. We, in this work, have fabricated Al2O3-hollow glass sphere (HGS) foam ceramics with a facile particle-stabilized foaming method. The obtained foam ceramic presents a hierarchical microstructure that is rare to be seen elsewhere using this foaming technique. The foaming system contains two types of particles having opposite charges, and the particle-stabilized foaming mechanism is hence discussed. The optimal sample possesses a porosity above 94% with a thermal conductivity as low as 0.0244 W/m·K, which reaches the level of superinsulating materials. The compressive strengths of the foam ceramics range from 0.07 to 0.83 MPa. The effective medium theory model is used to calculate the thermal conductivities as reference. The deviation of the theoretical values from the experimental ones are derived from the effect of the hierarchical microstructure of the foams. The results of this work may deepen one's understanding and pave new ways for the particle-stabilized foaming technique. The unique microstructure of the ceramic may also shed some light on fabricating superior thermal-insulating ceramic materials.
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- Chao Wang
- State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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Effect of Fe3O4/CNC ratio on properties of olive oil-in-water Pickering emulsions. Colloid Polym Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s00396-021-04938-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Shahid S, Madhavan N, Mukherjee M, Basavaraj MG. Macroporous Ceramic Monolith from Nanoparticle-Polyelectrolyte-Stabilized Pickering Emulsions. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:13575-13584. [PMID: 34874729 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c08858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In this work, we present a simple and scalable approach for fabricating porous ceramic from emulsions stabilized by a binary mixture of oppositely charged nanoparticles and a polyelectrolyte. The electrostatic heteroaggregation is exploited to form weakly charged particle-polyelectrolyte complexes (PPCs) that readily stabilize oil-in-water emulsions. The concentration of surface-active PPCs is varied to obtain Pickering emulsion gels that can be processed and converted into the macroporous ceramic structure. The polyelectrolyte in the binary mixture not only enables the adsorption of particles to the oil-water interface and renders processability of the emulsions but also acts as a binder. Nearly one-to-one correspondence between the microstructure of the green ceramic obtained after the evaporation of solvents from the gel-like emulsions and the parent emulsions is observed. The green ceramic is further sintered under controlled conditions to obtain a porous ceramic monolith. We demonstrate that the microstructure and the pore size distribution in the final ceramic can be altered by tuning the composition of the individual species used in the emulsion formulation, i.e., by optimization of the particle-polyelectrolyte ratio used in the processing route.
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- Shumaila Shahid
- Polymer Engineering and Colloid Science (PECS) Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Polymer Engineering and Colloid Science (PECS) Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, Tamil Nadu, India.,Metal Foams and Porous Materials Lab, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Metal Foams and Porous Materials Lab, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Polymer Engineering and Colloid Science (PECS) Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, Tamil Nadu, India
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Madhavan N, Yalla E, Pushpavanam S, Renganathan T, Mukherjee M, Basavaraj MG. Semi-batch and continuous production of Pickering emulsion via direct contact steam condensation. SOFT MATTER 2021; 17:9636-9643. [PMID: 34622912 DOI: 10.1039/d1sm00933h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We propose a versatile strategy for the production of highly stable water in oil Pickering emulsion by direct contact condensation of steam. In contrast to conventional methods that use mechanical energy for creating drops, the condensation of steam brought in contact with a non-aqueous colloidal dispersion is exploited to produce Pickering emulsions in two modes of operation, namely, semi-batch and continuous. As steam that comes in contact with oil condenses into water drops, the particles adsorb to the interface and thus arrest drop-drop coalescence. The adsorption of particles on the drop's surface imparts kinetic stability to the emulsions. The dependence of size of the emulsions as a function of parameters such as steam temperature, flow rate, particle type and particle concentration is investigated. We show that the tailoring of these parameters allows a precise control over droplet size distribution. The flexibility of continuous mode of operation makes it a potential technique for large scale production of emulsions suited for many applications.
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- Nithin Madhavan
- Polymer Engineering and Colloid Science Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras, India.
- Metal Foams and Porous Materials Lab, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
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- Metal Foams and Porous Materials Lab, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras, India
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- Polymer Engineering and Colloid Science Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras, India.
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Alsharif NB, Muráth S, Katana B, Szilagyi I. Composite materials based on heteroaggregated particles: Fundamentals and applications. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2021; 294:102456. [PMID: 34107320 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2021.102456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2021] [Revised: 05/27/2021] [Accepted: 05/27/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Homoaggregation of dispersed particles, i.e., aggregation of particles of the same shape, charge, size, and composition, is a well-studied field and various theoretical and experimental approaches exist to understand the major phenomena involved in such processes. Besides, heteroaggregation of particles, i.e., aggregation of particles of different shape, charge, size, or composition, has attracted widespread interest due to its relevance in various biomedical, industrial, and environmental systems. For instance, heteroaggregation of plastic contaminant particles with naturally occurring solid materials in waters (e.g., clays, silica and organic polymers) plays an important role in the decontamination technologies. Moreover, nanofabrication processes involving heteroaggregation of particles to prepare novel composite materials are widely implemented in fundamental science and in more applied disciplines. In such procedures, stable particle dispersions are mixed and the desired structure forms owing to the presence of interparticle forces of various origins, which can be tuned by performing appropriate surface functionalization as well as altering the experimental conditions. These composites are widely used in different fields from sensing through catalysis to biomedical delivery. The present review summarizes the recent progresses in the field including new findings regarding the basic principles in particle heteroaggregation, preparation strategies of heteroaggregated structures of different morphology, and the application of the obtained hybrid composites. Such information will be very helpful to those involved in the design of novel composites consisting of different nano or colloidal particles.
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Tao S, Jiang H, Gong S, Yin S, Li Y, Ngai T. Pickering Emulsions Simultaneously Stabilized by Starch Nanocrystals and Zein Nanoparticles: Fabrication, Characterization, and Application. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2021; 37:8577-8584. [PMID: 34219459 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c01088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Using two types of colloidal particles having natural origins to synergistically stabilize Pickering emulsions is essential for food, cosmetics, and pharmaceutics, especially when neither particle can stabilize the Pickering emulsions alone. The use of two natural stabilizers avoids the complicated surface treatments of particles and the introduction of poisonous or harmful chemicals. In this work, we report an all-natural Pickering emulsion stabilized synergistically by starch nanocrystals and zein protein nanoparticles. Our result shows that the electrostatic interaction between the two types of particles greatly affects their assembled structure at the oil/water interface, which is closely related to the emulsion stability. Specifically, particle bilayers could form with oppositely charged particles at the interface to endow the emulsion with improved stability. As a demonstration, the resultant Pickering emulsions effectively carry β-carotene and have high stability against high temperatures and ultraviolet radiation. This type of all-natural Pickering emulsion is a promising tool to protect and deliver liposoluble bioactive components.
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- Shengnan Tao
- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
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- Research and Development Center of Food Proteins, Department of Food Science and Technology, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
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- Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N. T., Hong Kong
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