Bicontinuous structured liquids with sub-micrometre domains using nanoparticle surfactants

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 1060-1063

  Huang, Caili ^a,b,c   Forth, Joe ^a   Wang, Weiyu ^c   Hong, Kunlun ^c   Smith, Gregory S ^c   Helms, Brett A ^a   Russell, Thomas P ^a,b,d,e  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUIDS; PHASE INTERFACES; SOLS; SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

BICONTINUOUS; COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; IMMISCIBLE LIQUIDS; INTERCONNECTED STRUCTURES; LARGE DOMAIN; MOLECULAR ENCAPSULATION; OIL WATER INTERFACES; STRUCTURED LIQUIDS;

NANOPARTICLES;

LIGAND; NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER; SOLVENT; SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; BICONTINUOUS JAMMED EMULSION; CHEMICAL BINDING; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DECOMPOSITION; EMULSION; HOMOGENIZATION; LIQUID; MOLECULAR STABILITY; OIL WATER INTERFACE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 85032889630     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2017.182     Document Type: Article

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