Scenario for equilibrium solid-stabilized emulsions

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Kegel, Willem K ^a   Groenewold, Jan ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE EFFECT; COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; ENTROPIC CONTRIBUTIONS; INTERFACIAL TENSIONS; IONIC DISSOCIATION; OIL-WATER; OIL/WATER INTERFACES; SOLID-STABILIZED EMULSION; SPONTANEOUS EMULSIFICATION;

EMULSIFICATION; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS;

COLLOID CHEMISTRY;

EID: 70349510882     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.030401     Document Type: Article

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