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  • Title: Pickering emulsions stabilized by nanoparticles with thermally responsive grafted polymer brushes.
    Author: Saigal T, Dong H, Matyjaszewski K, Tilton RD.
    Journal: Langmuir; 2010 Oct 05; 26(19):15200-9. PubMed ID: 20831185.
    Abstract:
    A study is presented of emulsification by silica nanoparticles with poly(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate) brushes grafted from their surfaces (SiO(2)-PDMAEMA) by atom-transfer radical polymerization (ATRP). The grafted nanoparticles were used to stabilize xylene-in-water and cyclohexane-in-water Pickering emulsions. PDMAEMA is a water-soluble weak polyelectrolyte with a pH-dependent lower critical solution temperature (LCST). Accordingly, SiO(2)-PDMAEMA nanoparticles were thermally responsive, as shown by the fact that they displayed a critical flocculation temperature (CFT) when heated. ATRP provides a high degree of control over the brush grafting density and degree of polymerization, two of the principal variables examined in this study. The effects of the solvent quality of the "oil" for the PDMAEMA brush were studied in addition to the effects of aqueous pH, ionic strength, and temperature relative to the CFT. The preferred emulsion type was oil in water in all cases. The lowest grafting density particles (0.077 chains/nm(2)) proved to be the most efficient and robust emulsifiers, producing stable emulsions using as little as 0.05 wt % particles in the aqueous phase and successfully emulsifying over a broader range of solution conditions than for the higher grafting density particles (0.36 and 1.27 chain/nm(2)). Both good (xylene) and poor (cyclohexane) solvents could be emulsified, but the poor solvent could be emulsified over a broader range of conditions than the good solvent. Emulsions have been stable for over 13 months, and some have dispersed as much as 83 vol % oil in the emulsion phase. Thermally responsive emulsions were created with the SiO(2)-PDMAEMA particles such that stable emulsions prepared at low temperature were rapidly broken by increasing the temperature above the CFT.
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