Conventional surfactants have dominated emulsion science due to their ease of use, relatively low cost and control. However, their future industrial use is under threat, because of formulation foaming problems, skin irritation issues for home & personal care products and the need to reduce VOCs and carbon footprints. In principle, Pickering emulsions can address these problems.
Pickering emulsions are stabilised by solid particles, rather than surfactants. However, despite being recognised for more than a century, they have received relatively little commercial attention. Suitable particle-based emulsifiers include clays, silica and polymer nanoparticles, with morphologies ranging from spheres to worms to dumbbells to discs. In principle, Pickering emulsions can be used in many industrial sectors, including agrochemicals, cosmetics, food manufacturing and drug delivery. The aim of this workshop is to further our understanding of how to tailor Pickering emulsifiers to achieve high performance within an industrial context.
At this workshop our aims are:
Pickering emulsions are stabilised by solid particles, rather than surfactants. However, despite being recognised for more than a century, they have received relatively little commercial attention. Suitable particle-based emulsifiers include clays, silica and polymer nanoparticles, with morphologies ranging from spheres to worms to dumbbells to discs. In principle, Pickering emulsions can be used in many industrial sectors, including agrochemicals, cosmetics, food manufacturing and drug delivery. The aim of this workshop is to further our understanding of how to tailor Pickering emulsifiers to achieve high performance within an industrial context.
At this workshop our aims are:
- To enhance the interface between industry and academia with respect to further understanding of Pickering technologies and to identify any challenges in commercialisation.
- To establish a set of practical guidelines to help industrial scientists identify which particles to use for a given system to produce the desired final properties (“A Beginners Guide to Pickering Technologies”).
- To direct future academic research to tackle the perceived current commercial limitations of Pickering emulsions.
- To give young colloid scientists the opportunity to meet established companies in the field.
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Event Flyer
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Programme
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Invited speaker 1: Fundamentals of particle-stabilised emulsions
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Invited speaker 2: Bespoke Pickering emulsifiers based on block copolymer nanoparticles
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Invited speaker 3: Formulating with Pickering emulsions
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Invited speaker 4: – Commercialisation of Pickering Emulsions: examples from food and pharma
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Invited speaker 6: Interfacial stabilization by soft Janus nanoparticles
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Talk 1: Clay based emulsions: kinetics and rheology
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Talk 3: Pickering emulsion stabilisation using synthetic clays, formulation examples and challenges
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Poster 2: Tailored microstructure of colloidal lipid particles for Pickering emulsions
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Invited Speaker 5: The ins and outs of Pickering emulsion polymerization
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Talk 2: Joining Emulsion Droplets Using Colloidal Rods
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Poster 1: Encapsulation and Triggered Release of Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Actives
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A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO PICKERING TECHNOLOGIES: A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH THE EXPERTS
