Olalla Consulting x RSC Webinar Series: Chemistry at Interfaces and Beyond
Olalla Consulting, in collaboration with the Royal Society of Chemistry, is proud to launch a new webinar series exploring advances in industrial chemistry and the evolving environments that support the field, from formulation science to workplace innovation.
We are delighted to open the series with a talk by Professor Bernard P. Binks, FRS (Department of Chemistry, University of Hull), who will share his pioneering work on the behaviour of particles at fluid interfaces. His talk will trace the journey from the classic Pickering emulsions to modern applications such as powdered oil, dry water, and stimuli-responsive systems highlighting their relevance across personal care, food, pharma, and agrochemical formulations.
Particles as Surfactants: Foams, Emulsions and Novel Materials
Professor Bernard P. Binks, FRS
Department of Chemistry, University of Hull, Hull. HU6 7RX. UK
The behaviour of small solid particles at liquid interfaces will be introduced. Intrigued by little activity globally since the pioneering paper by Pickering in 1907, we decided to systematically investigate the influence of particle hydrophobicity on their arrangement at planar oil-water interfaces and their stabilisation of emulsions for pure particles, both inorganic and organic. This led on to studying the preparation and properties of particle-stabilised foams and subsequently how particles adsorb at oil-oil, water-water and air-oil interfaces. New materials containing assembled particles at fluid interfaces resulted including dry water, powdered oil, oil foams and liquid marbles. Recently, we have been studying catalysis (chemical and bio-) in Pickering emulsions as a novel platform for synthesis.
It is of great interest to ask what happens when surfactant and particles are present simultaneously, this being the case in many commercial formulations in the food, cosmetic, pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. We have investigated emulsions and foams in the case of like charge on surfactant and particles and in the case of opposite charge. Stimuli-responsive dispersed systems result when either or both of the surfactant and particles is stimulus-responsive.
Olalla Consulting, in collaboration with the Royal Society of Chemistry, is proud to launch a new webinar series exploring advances in industrial chemistry and the evolving environments that support the field, from formulation science to workplace innovation.
We are delighted to open the series with a talk by Professor Bernard P. Binks, FRS (Department of Chemistry, University of Hull), who will share his pioneering work on the behaviour of particles at fluid interfaces. His talk will trace the journey from the classic Pickering emulsions to modern applications such as powdered oil, dry water, and stimuli-responsive systems highlighting their relevance across personal care, food, pharma, and agrochemical formulations.
Particles as Surfactants: Foams, Emulsions and Novel Materials
Professor Bernard P. Binks, FRS
Department of Chemistry, University of Hull, Hull. HU6 7RX. UK
The behaviour of small solid particles at liquid interfaces will be introduced. Intrigued by little activity globally since the pioneering paper by Pickering in 1907, we decided to systematically investigate the influence of particle hydrophobicity on their arrangement at planar oil-water interfaces and their stabilisation of emulsions for pure particles, both inorganic and organic. This led on to studying the preparation and properties of particle-stabilised foams and subsequently how particles adsorb at oil-oil, water-water and air-oil interfaces. New materials containing assembled particles at fluid interfaces resulted including dry water, powdered oil, oil foams and liquid marbles. Recently, we have been studying catalysis (chemical and bio-) in Pickering emulsions as a novel platform for synthesis.
It is of great interest to ask what happens when surfactant and particles are present simultaneously, this being the case in many commercial formulations in the food, cosmetic, pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. We have investigated emulsions and foams in the case of like charge on surfactant and particles and in the case of opposite charge. Stimuli-responsive dispersed systems result when either or both of the surfactant and particles is stimulus-responsive.
