Microfluidic production of size-tunable hexadecane-in-water emulsions: Effect of droplet size on destabilization of two-dimensional emulsions due to partial coalescence

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
Samira AbediSiva A Vanapalli

Abstract

Despite numerous studies, the mechanism of destabilization of oil-in-water emulsions during cooling-heating cycles is unclear due to indirect measurements and lack of direct control over the droplet size. It is hypothesized that emulsions with a smaller droplet size are more resistant to destabilization than emulsions containing larger droplets since the probability of initiating partial coalescence and forming large-scale aggregates is lower for small droplets. Monodisperse hexadecane-in-water emulsions with controlled droplet sizes were produced using a microfluidic valve-based flow-focusing device and varying the system parameters. A unique approach was developed to create a two-dimensional (2D) array of droplets enabling visualization of the destabilization process due to temperature cycling. The influence of droplet size on partial coalescence and destabilization was investigated. In the 2D emulsion, destabilization proceeds through a combination of spontaneous coalescence events that yield small-scale structures followed by formation of large-scale structures by coalescence propagation. We find that emulsion destabilization increases with droplet size. Quantifying the frequency of n-body coalescence events reveals that in...Continue Reading

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Apr 16, 2020·Physical Review. E·Samira AbediSiva A Vanapalli
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