eprintid: 1427970 rev_number: 32 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/42/79/70 datestamp: 2014-04-30 18:33:10 lastmod: 2021-10-05 00:42:47 status_changed: 2014-04-30 18:33:10 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Lee, KY creators_name: Blaker, JJ creators_name: Murakami, R creators_name: Heng, JY creators_name: Bismarck, A title: Phase behavior of medium and high internal phase water-in-oil emulsions stabilized solely by hydrophobized bacterial cellulose nanofibrils. ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 note: © 2013 American Chemical Society. Terms of Use CC-BY. abstract: Water-in-oil emulsions stabilized solely by bacterial cellulose nanofibers (BCNs), which were hydrophobized by esterification with organic acids of various chain lengths (acetic acid, C2-; hexanoic acid, C6-; dodecanoic acid, C12-), were produced and characterized. When using freeze-dried C6-BCN and C12-BCN, only a maximum water volume fraction (ϕw) of 60% could be stabilized, while no emulsion was obtained for C2-BCN. However, the maximum ϕw increased to 71%, 81%, and 77% for C2-BCN, C6-BCN, and C12-BCN, respectively, 150 h after the initial emulsification, thereby creating high internal phase water-in-toluene emulsions. The observed time-dependent behavior of these emulsions is consistent with the disentanglement and dispersion of freeze-dried modified BCN bundles into individual nanofibers with time. These emulsions exhibited catastrophic phase separation when ϕw was increased, as opposed to catastrophic phase inversion observed for other Pickering emulsions. date: 2014-01-21 official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la4032514 vfaculties: VENG oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't verified: verified_manual elements_source: PubMed elements_id: 942815 doi: 10.1021/la4032514 language_elements: aa lyricists_name: Lee, Koon lyricists_id: KYLEE17 full_text_status: public publication: Langmuir volume: 30 number: 2 pagerange: 452 - 460 event_location: United States citation: Lee, KY; Blaker, JJ; Murakami, R; Heng, JY; Bismarck, A; (2014) Phase behavior of medium and high internal phase water-in-oil emulsions stabilized solely by hydrophobized bacterial cellulose nanofibrils. Langmuir , 30 (2) 452 - 460. 10.1021/la4032514 <https://doi.org/10.1021/la4032514>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1427970/1/la4032514.pdf