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Controlling Pickering Emulsion Destabilisation: a Route to Fabricating New Materials by Phase Inversion materials Review Controlling Pickering Emulsion Destabilisation: A Route to Fabricating New Materials by Phase Inversion Catherine P. Whitby 1,* and Erica J. Wanless 2 1 Institute of Fundamental Sciences, University of Massey, Palmerston North 4410, New Zealand 2 Priority Research Centre for Advanced Particle Processing and Transport, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +64-6-951-9007 Academic Editor: Syuji Fujii Received: 29 June 2016; Accepted: 22 July 2016; Published: 27 July 2016 Abstract: The aim of this paper is to review the key findings about how particle-stabilised (or Pickering) emulsions respond to stress and break down. Over the last ten years, new insights have been gained into how particles attached to droplet (and bubble) surfaces alter the destabilisation mechanisms in emulsions. The conditions under which chemical demulsifiers displace, or detach, particles from the interface were established. Mass transfer between drops and the continuous phase was shown to disrupt the layers of particles attached to drop surfaces. The criteria for causing coalescence by applying physical stress (shear or compression) to Pickering emulsions were characterised. These findings are being used to design the structures of materials formed by breaking Pickering emulsions. Keywords: Pickering emulsion; particle-stabilised emulsion; destabilisation 1. Introduction Controlling emulsion stability during their storage and use is a major challenge [1–4]. Emulsions are used in cosmetic products, detergents and foods, as well as for liquid extractions and oil recovery [1–3]. Products like moisturizer creams take advantage of how emulsions yield and flow, their texture and visual appearance. These properties depend on the volume fraction and size of the droplets in the emulsion. They change over time due to Ostwald ripening, flocculation and coalescence of the drops. Making an emulsion that will not age irreversibly while it is being handled requires addition of stabilising components. They can be surfactant molecules, polymers, proteins, or particles. The topic of this review is emulsion stability in the presence of particles. Ramsden [5] (and later Pickering [6]) first described the presence of a membrane of solid particles (proteins or other precipitated colloids) enhancing the lifetime of oil droplets and air bubbles in water. Recent progress has improved our understanding of the mechanisms by which solid particles slow Ostwald ripening and coalescence [4,7,8]. The remarkable stability of Pickering emulsions is a problem for applications that require controlled destabilisation of emulsions. Particle-stabilised emulsions that form during the extraction of bitumen from oil sands, for example, are difficult to break. They reduce the volume of oil recovered and generate waste (the unwanted emulsion) [9–11]. Pickering emulsion formation during biphasic reactions catalysed by nanoparticles increases the reaction yield, but reduces its efficiency [12,13]. They hinder separation of the products from the reaction mixture and recycling of the catalyst [14,15]. Particle separations using biphasic extractions are also hindered by particles becoming trapped at the liquid interface [16,17]. Materials 2016, 9, 626; doi:10.3390/ma9080626 www.mdpi.com/journal/materials Materials 2016, 9, 626 2 of 22 Emulsions and foams are destabilised to make coatings and adhesives by evaporating the volatile components to leave a film of active ingredients on a solid surface. Using Pickering emulsions as precursors for assembling films of particles on surfaces, for example, relies on the particle-coated drops or bubbles coalescing with a flat oil-water or air-water interface [18,19]. Although Pickering emulsions are templatesMaterials for2016, assembling 9, 626 particles into porous solids [20–22], the particle networks tend2 of to 21 collapse during dryingEmulsions [23,24 ].and The foams voids are in destabilised the solids formedto make typicallycoatings and lack adhesives the desired by evaporating polyhedral the geometry. Thevolatile focus components of this review to leave is on a developmentsfilm of active ingredients in our understanding on a solid surface. of how Using particle-stabilised Pickering emulsionsemulsions break down.as precursors Denkov for etassembling al. [25] first films proposed of particles that on Pickeringsurfaces, for emulsions example, relies destabilise on the if there are defects,particle like‐coated fractures drops or or vacancies, bubbles coalescing in the particle with a layerflat oil coating‐water or the air drops.‐water interface The defects [18,19]. cause the thin filmsAlthough separating Pickering drops emulsions to rupture are templates and the for drops assembling coalesce. particles One approachinto porous to solids controlling [20–22], the Pickering particle networks tend to collapse during drying [23,24]. The voids in the solids formed typically emulsion stability is to synthesise particles that respond to an external stimulus by detaching from lack the desired polyhedral geometry. the drop surface.The focus The of this particles review areis on used developments to form in emulsions our understanding that can of be how destabilised particle‐stabilised on demand. This approachemulsions was break recently down. reviewedDenkov et al. comprehensively [25] first proposed [that26]. Pickering Here we emulsions focus on destabilise the structural if there changes that occurare defects, in Pickering like fractures emulsions or vacancies, as they in age.the particle We describe layer coating how the emulsions drops. The aredefects broken cause by the particle detachment,thin films mass separating transfer drops and to drop rupture coalescence. and the drops Then coalesce. we discuss One approach the materials to controlling being Pickering fabricated by harnessingemulsion destabilisation stability is to processes synthesise inparticles Pickering that respond emulsions. to an external stimulus by detaching from the drop surface. The particles are used to form emulsions that can be destabilised on demand. This 2. Detachingapproach Particles was recently from reviewed Fluid Interfacescomprehensively [26]. Here we focus on the structural changes that occur in Pickering emulsions as they age. We describe how emulsions are broken by particle Particlesdetachment, (of radius mass transferrp) assemble and drop at coalescence. oil-water interfacesThen we discuss (of interfacial the materials tension, being fabricatedγow) by becomingby harnessing destabilisation processes in Pickering emulsions. partially immersed in both liquids and forming a three phase oil-water-particle contact angle, θow. Attached2. Detaching particles reduce Particles the from total Fluid interfacial Interfaces area between the oil and water. This alters the free energy ˝ of the system by changing the balance of surface energies. For spherical particles with θow < 90 , Particles (of radius rp) assemble at oil‐water interfaces (of interfacial tension, γow) by becoming the free energy of attaching a particle to a drop is denoted DaG, and is given by [27,28]: partially immersed in both liquids and forming a three phase oil‐water‐particle contact angle, θow. Attached particles reduce the total interfacial area between the oil and water. This alters the free D G “ ´πγ r2 p1 ´ cosθ q2 (1) energy of the system by changing athe balance owof surfacep energies.ow For spherical particles with θow < 90°, the free energy of attaching a particle to a drop is denoted ΔaG, and is given by [27,28]: The interfacial energy trapping a particle at an oil-water interface calculated using Eqn 1 is ∆ πγ 1 θ 4 (1) significant for particles on the colloidal length scale (up to 10 kT for rp ~10 nm). The lack of thermodynamicThe interfacial stability energy in Pickering trapping a emulsions particle at an arises oil‐water because interface bare calculated oil-water using interface Eqn 1 is remains significant for particles on the colloidal length scale (up to 104 kT for rp ~ 10 nm). The lack of between the particles attached to the drop surfaces. The positive free energy of forming this interface thermodynamic stability in Pickering emulsions arises because bare oil‐water interface remains alwaysbetween outweighs the particles the negative attached contribution to the drop surfaces. from particle The positive attachment. free energy Although of forming attached this interface particles are not at equilibrium,always outweighs particles the negative with radii contribution larger thanfrom particle several attachment. nanometres Although attach attached to oil-water particles interfaces effectivelyare not irreversibly, at equilibrium, giving particles emulsions with radii kinetic larger stability. than several In this nanometres section weattach discuss to oil‐ destabilisingwater emulsionsinterfaces by altering effectively the particle irreversibly, wettability giving oremulsions by competitive kinetic stability. displacement In this withsection surfactant we discuss molecules and by modifyingdestabilising theemulsions particle by flocculation altering the (Figureparticle 1wettability). or by competitive displacement with surfactant molecules and by modifying the particle flocculation (Figure 1). 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