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Responsive emulsions with controllable stability are of growing interests in recent years. These emulsions are usually stabilized by specially synthesized surfactants, polymers, solid particles or their mixtures with switchable functional groups. However, these emulsifiers are inconvenient for extensive utilizations due to their complicated synthesis processes. Here we propose a new approach of using hydrophilic silica nanoparticles activated by a conventional polyoxyethylene nonionic surfactant to prepare responsive Pickering emulsions triggered by CO 2 /N 2 . The addition or removal of CO 2 is to simply change the amount of silanols on the particle surface, increasing or decreasing the adsorbing sites for hydrogen bonding with oxyethylene groups. The adsorption amount of the polyoxyethylene nonionic surfactant onto silica nanoparticles can be significantly increased when CO 2 is introduced, making the particles hydrophobized in situ and become excellent stabilizers for Pickering emulsions. While N 2 was bubbled at an elevated temperature to remove the dissolved CO 2 , the substantial desorption of the surfactant from the particle surface can make silica nanoparticles regain their

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Author

L Zhang; G Zhang; J Ge; P Jiang; H Pei

Publisher

IOP Publishing (ISSN 1755-1307)

Published

2018

Language

EN

Field

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Physical Sciences)