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  • Title: Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) with different crystalline allomorph for oil in water Pickering emulsions.
    Author: Li X, Li J, Gong J, Kuang Y, Mo L, Song T.
    Journal: Carbohydr Polym; 2018 Mar 01; 183():303-310. PubMed ID: 29352889.
    Abstract:
    In recent years, nanocelluloses have attracted a lot of interests as promising stabilizers for Pickering emulsion particularly in food, cosmetics and pharmaceutics industries. In this work, two cellulose nanocrystals (named CNCs-I and CNCs-II) with different crystalline allomorph were investigated as stabilizers for oil-water Pickering emulsion. CNCs were prepared by sulfuric acid hydrolysis of unmodified and mercerized microcrystalline cellulose (MCC), respectively. CNCs-I was needle-like particles (length - 200 nm, width - 16.4 nm), while CNCs-II was individual granules (length - 18.8 nm, width - 10.9 nm) with ellipsoid shapes. Both CNCs had surface charge density higher than 0.1 e/nm2. Pickering emulsions stabilized by CNCs-I had larger emulsion ratio, two times smaller droplet size and superior performance of stability than CNCs-II. It is concluded that crystalline allomorph of CNCs played more dominating roles to the stabilization of Pickering emulsion than morphologies of CNCs themselves in this work, and CNCs-II is not the good candidates as stabilizer for Pickering emulsion compared to CNCs-I.
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