Pickering emulsions stabilized by amphiphilic nano-sheets uri icon

abstract

  • We demonstrate the fabrication of amphiphilic nano-sheets, which are either surface- or edge-modified plates with thickness at the atomic scale, one of the thinnest amphiphilic particles reported so far. They are obtained by exfoliation of functionalized layered crystals, the first time that laminar structures have been utilized to produce such particles. Stable emulsions were made utilizing these nano-sheets. The adsorption of the amphiphilic nano-sheets onto the oil-in-water interfaces and the reduction of surface tension between the PDMS and the amphiphilic nano-sheet suspensions were quantitatively characterized. The Royal Society of Chemistry 2012.

published proceedings

  • SOFT MATTER

altmetric score

  • 4

author list (cited authors)

  • Mejia, A. F., Diaz, A., Pullela, S., Chang, Y., Simonetty, M., Carpenter, C., ... Cheng, Z.

citation count

  • 111

complete list of authors

  • Mejia, Andres F||Diaz, Agustin||Pullela, Srinivasa||Chang, Ya-Wen||Simonetty, Michael||Carpenter, Carrie||Batteas, James D||Mannan, M Sam||Clearfield, Abraham||Cheng, Zhengdong

publication date

  • October 2012