Non-coalescence of oppositely charged droplets in pH-sensitive emulsions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 384-389

  Liu, Tingting ^a   Seiffert, Sebastian ^b,c,d   Thiele, Julian ^b,e   Abate, Adam R ^b,f   Weitz, David A ^b   Richtering, Walter ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^f San Francisco   (United States)

Author keywords

Lab on a chip; Limited coalescence; Pickering emulsions; Poly (N isopropylacrylamide) microgels; Stimuli sensitive emulsions

Indexed keywords

STABILIZING AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; EMULSION; HYDROGEL; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONCOALESCENCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EMULSIONS; HYDROGEL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84856019657     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1019196109     Document Type: Article

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