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82 Citations
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8 November 2016

Pickering emulsions with the use of particles as emulsifiers have been extensively used in scientific research and industrial production due to their edge in biocompatibility and stability compared with traditional emulsions. The control over Pickeri...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,295 Views
14 Pages

Stable primary emulsion formation in which different parameters such as viscosity and droplet size come into prominence for their characterization is a key factor in W/O/W emulsions. In this study, different emulsifiers (Crill™ 1, Crill™...

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  • Open Access
52 Citations
7,642 Views
20 Pages

A Review of Biopolymers’ Utility as Emulsion Stabilizers

  • Nirmala Tamang,
  • Pooja Shrestha,
  • Binita Khadka,
  • Monohar Hossain Mondal,
  • Bidyut Saha and
  • Ajaya Bhattarai

30 December 2021

Polysaccharides, polynucleotides, and polypeptides are basic natural polymers. They have various applications based on their properties. This review mostly discusses the application of natural polymers as emulsion stabilizers. Natural emulsion stabil...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,000 Views
18 Pages

Microencapsulation of Olive Oil by Dehydration of Emulsion: Effects of the Emulsion Formulation and Dehydration Process

  • Donia Chaabane,
  • Iman Mirmazloum,
  • Asma Yakdhane,
  • Emna Ayari,
  • Krisztina Albert,
  • Gyula Vatai,
  • Márta Ladányi,
  • András Koris and
  • Arijit Nath

Microencapsulation of extra virgin olive oil has been taken into consideration. Initially, emulsions were prepared using extra virgin olive oil and aqueous solutions of different proportions of maltodextrin (MD) having dextrose equivalent (DE) 19 and...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,952 Views
13 Pages

Mechanism Influencing the Drying Behavior of Bitumen Emulsion

  • Chun Li,
  • Jian Ouyang,
  • Fangjie Dou and
  • Jingtao Shi

12 July 2021

The drying process of bitumen emulsion largely dominates the strength development of emulsion-based mixtures for pavement structure, thus it can be used to judge the quality of bitumen emulsion. However, the drying behaviour of bitumen emulsions was...

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  • Open Access
415 Views
17 Pages

Mesquite-Derived Galactomannan Esters as Novel Oleogelators: Emulsion Characteristics and Their Emulsion-Templated Oleogels

  • Gabriel H. Gómez-Rodríguez,
  • Osiris Álvarez-Bajo,
  • Waldo M. Argüelles-Monal,
  • Jaime Lizardi-Mendoza,
  • Tomás J. Madera-Santana,
  • Francisco Vásquez-Lara and
  • Yolanda L. López-Franco

This study investigates the emulsifying capacity (EC), emulsion stability (ES), and oleogel-forming potential of galactomannan (GM) esters modified with decanoic (GD) and palmitic (GP) fatty acids at low (L) and high (H) degrees of esterification (DE...

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133 Citations
15,071 Views
24 Pages

Application of Emulsion Gels as Fat Substitutes in Meat Products

  • Yuqing Ren,
  • Lu Huang,
  • Yinxiao Zhang,
  • He Li,
  • Di Zhao,
  • Jinnuo Cao and
  • Xinqi Liu

30 June 2022

Although traditional meat products are highly popular with consumers, the high levels of unsaturated fatty acids and cholesterol present significant health concerns. However, simply using plant oil rich in unsaturated fatty acids to replace animal fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,577 Views
15 Pages

An Oligoimide Particle as a Pickering Emulsion Stabilizer

  • Yu-Jin Cho,
  • Dong-Min Kim,
  • In-Ho Song,
  • Ju-Young Choi,
  • Seung-Won Jin,
  • Beom-Jun Kim,
  • Jin-Won Jeong,
  • Chae-Eun Jang,
  • Kunmo Chu and
  • Chan-Moon Chung

27 September 2018

A pyromellitic dianhydride (PMDA) and 4,4′-oxydianiline (ODA)-based oligoimide (PMDA-ODA) was synthesized by a one-step procedure using water as a solvent. The PMDA-ODA particles showed excellent partial wetting properties and were stably dispersed i...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,630 Views
14 Pages

Development of β-Cyclodextrin/Konjac-Based Emulsion Gel for a Pork Backfat Substitute in Emulsion-Type Sausage

  • Yea-Ji Kim,
  • Dong-Min Shin,
  • Jong-Hyeok Yune,
  • Hyun-Su Jung,
  • Hyuk-Cheol Kwon,
  • Kyung-Woo Lee,
  • Jae-Wook Oh,
  • Beob-Gyun Kim and
  • Sung-Gu Han

11 June 2022

Emulsion gel has been used to replace animal fats in meat products. Konjac is a widely used gelling agent; however, its low emulsion stability limits its use in meat products. This study aimed to examine the quality characteristics of β-cyclodex...

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  • Open Access
264 Citations
28,075 Views
25 Pages

9 April 2021

The food industry is one of the major users of emulsion technology, as many food products exist in an emulsified form, including many dressings, sauces, spreads, dips, creams, and beverages. Recently, there has been an interest in improving the healt...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,656 Views
13 Pages

30 March 2022

Background: Natural ingredients have been employed to develop food products. Methods: Hydrocolloids from butternut squash seeds (HBSSs) were extracted with water at pH 3, 7, and 10 and characterized bromatologically and rheologically; then these HBSS...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
13,626 Views
40 Pages

On the Use of Starch in Emulsion Polymerizations

  • Shidan Cummings,
  • Yujie Zhang,
  • Niels Smeets,
  • Michael Cunningham and
  • Marc A. Dubé

6 March 2019

The substitution of petroleum-based synthetic polymers in latex formulations with sustainable and/or bio-based sources has increasingly been a focus of both academic and industrial research. Emulsion polymerization already provides a more sustainable...

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8 Citations
5,134 Views
31 Pages

5 May 2025

Encapsulation is defined as the entrapment of active agents within another substance, which can be either solid or liquid. These substances need to be protected in order to preserve their functional and physicochemical properties, to enhance their st...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,329 Views
11 Pages

Antioxidant Effect of Vitamins in Olive Oil Emulsion

  • Francesca Cuomo,
  • Giuseppe Cinelli,
  • Catalina Chirascu,
  • Emanuele Marconi and
  • Francesco Lopez

In this study, water-in-extra virgin olive oil emulsions were enriched with vitamins. Water-in oil emulsions are heterogeneous systems able to solubilize both hydrophilic and hydrophobic compounds. Thus, hydrophilic vitamin C and lipophilic vitamin E...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,602 Views
12 Pages

25 March 2022

1,6-hexanediol diacrylate (HDDA) or divinyl adipate (DVA) and pentaerythritol tetrakis(3-mercaptopropionate) (TT) were polymerised via a thiol-ene radical initiated photopolymerisation using emulsions with a high volume fraction of internal droplet p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,715 Views
15 Pages

Properties of Macadam Stabilized with Cement and Asphalt Emulsion

  • Jian Sun,
  • Yong Huang,
  • Yulin He,
  • Bieliatynskyi Andrii and
  • Wen Liu

21 November 2023

The cracking of cement-stabilized macadam (CSM) reflects to the asphalt layer, which is one of the reasons for the failure of pavement performance and structure. Adding asphalt emulsion to CSM can effectively prevent the formation of cracks. The prim...

  • Review
  • Open Access
120 Citations
14,843 Views
18 Pages

Rheology of Emulsion-Filled Gels Applied to the Development of Food Materials

  • Ivana M. Geremias-Andrade,
  • Nayla P.B.G. Souki,
  • Izabel C.F. Moraes and
  • Samantha C. Pinho

16 August 2016

Emulsion-filled gels are classified as soft solid materials and are complex colloids formed by matrices of polymeric gels into which emulsion droplets are incorporated. Several structural aspects of these gels have been studied in the past few years,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,258 Views
22 Pages

Emulsion Structural Remodeling in Milk and Its Gelling Products: A Review

  • Dexing Yao,
  • Le-Chang Sun,
  • Ling-Jing Zhang,
  • Yu-Lei Chen,
  • Song Miao,
  • Ming-Jie Cao and
  • Duanquan Lin

21 October 2024

The fat covered by fat globule membrane is scattered in a water phase rich in lactose and milky protein, forming the original emulsion structure of milk. In order to develop low-fat milk products with good performance or dairy products with nutrition...

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  • Open Access
471 Views
15 Pages

26 January 2026

The aging population and increasing prevalence of oxidative stress-related diseases underscore the need for functional food and pharmaceutical formulations enriched with bioactive compounds. This study aimed to design sustainable emulsion systems inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,801 Views
13 Pages

Behaviors of Perfluorocarbon Emulsion during Dissolution of Oxide Layers

  • Naon Chang,
  • Huijun Won,
  • Chonghun Jung,
  • Seonbyeong Kim,
  • Heechul Eun and
  • Yongsoo Kim

This study investigates the dissolution behavior of oxide layers containing radionuclides using perfluorocarbon (PFC) emulsion as a reusable medium. Chemicals such as PFC, anionic surfactant, and H2SO4 are used for preparing the PFC emulsion, and emu...

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31 Citations
10,819 Views
29 Pages

9 March 2022

The global increase of road infrastructure and its impact on the environment requires serious attention to develop sustainable and environmentally friendly road materials. One group of those materials is produced by using bitumen emulsion. However, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,156 Views
16 Pages

11 January 2023

In water-in-oil-in-water (W1/O/W2) double emulsions several irreversible instability phenomena lead to changes. Besides diffusive processes, coalescence of droplets is the main cause of structural changes. In double emulsions, inner droplets can coal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,103 Views
13 Pages

The greatest challenges of modern pharmacology are the design of drugs with the highest possible efficacy of an active substance and with the lowest possible invasiveness for the whole organism. A good solution features the application of a bioactive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
3,659 Views
12 Pages

Techno-Economic Assessment: Food Emulsion Waste Management

  • George Lazaroiu,
  • Katarina Valaskova,
  • Elvira Nica,
  • Pavol Durana,
  • Pavol Kral,
  • Petr Bartoš and
  • Anna Maroušková

19 September 2020

Production of food-grade emulsions is continuously rising globally, especially in developing countries. The steepest demand growth is in the segment of inexpensive meat products where edible emulsions serve as lubricants to mitigate economic loses li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,422 Views
15 Pages

Emulsion Stabilization Strategies for Tailored Isocyanate Microcapsules

  • Mónica V. Loureiro,
  • António Mariquito,
  • Mário Vale,
  • João C. Bordado,
  • Isabel Pinho and
  • Ana C. Marques

12 January 2023

We report on the stabilization of an oil-in-water (O/W) emulsion to, combined with interfacial polymerization, produce core–shell polyurea microcapsules (MCs) containing isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI). These will act as crosslinkers for mono-co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
11,383 Views
9 Pages

Study on the Stability of DeoxyArbutin in an Anhydrous Emulsion Systemy

  • Chih-Chien Lin,
  • Chao-Hsun Yang,
  • Nai-Fang Chang,
  • Pey-Shiuan Wu,
  • Yi-Shyan Chen,
  • Shu-Mei Lee and
  • Chiu-Wen Chen

15 September 2011

The skin-whitening agent, deoxyArbutin, is a potent tyrosinase inhibitor that is safer than hydroquinone and arbutin. However, it is thermolabile in aqueous solutions, where it decomposes to hydroquinone. Pharmaceutical and cosmetic emulsions are nor...

  • Review
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51 Citations
10,969 Views
15 Pages

The Use of Polymer and Surfactants for the Microencapsulation and Emulsion Stabilization

  • Altynay A. Sharipova,
  • Saule B. Aidarova,
  • Botagoz Z. Mutaliyeva,
  • Alpamys A. Babayev,
  • Miras Issakhov,
  • Assem B. Issayeva,
  • Galiya M. Madybekova,
  • Dmitry O. Grigoriev and
  • Reinhard Miller

Polymer/surfactant mixtures have a wide range of industrial and technological applications, one of them being the use in microencapsulation and emulsion stabilization processes. These mixtures are able to form adsorption layers at the surface of oil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,836 Views
9 Pages

Exclusive Fish Oil Lipid Emulsion Rescue Strategy Improves Cholestasis in Neonates on Partially Fish Oil-Based Lipid Emulsion: A Pilot Study

  • David Ramiro-Cortijo,
  • Sonia Del Pozo Arribas,
  • Lidia Inisterra Viu,
  • Natalia García Vázquez and
  • Miguel Saenz de Pipaon

18 January 2023

Resolution of parenteral nutrition-associated liver disease has been identified in infants receiving SMOFlipid™ or a 100% fish oil lipid emulsion (FOLE). However, the effect of FOLE is unknown when the previous emulsion received is a mixed lipi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
14,413 Views
16 Pages

A Comparative Study of the Physicochemical Properties of a Virgin Coconut Oil Emulsion and Commercial Food Supplement Emulsions

  • Yih Phing Khor,
  • Soo Peng Koh,
  • Kamariah Long,
  • Shariah Long,
  • Sharifah Zarah Syed Ahmad and
  • Chin Ping Tan

1 July 2014

Food manufacturers are interested in developing emulsion-based products into nutritional foods by using beneficial oils, such as fish oil and virgin coconut oil (VCO). In this study, the physicochemical properties of a VCO oil-in-water emulsion was i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,492 Views
20 Pages

13 March 2024

Reversible emulsion drilling fluids can concentrate the advantages of water-based drilling fluids and oil-based drilling fluids. Most of the existing reversible emulsion drilling fluid systems are surfactant-based emulsifier systems, which have the d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,551 Views
7 Pages

Electrohydrodynamic Instabilities in Free Emulsion Films

  • Farshid Mostowfi,
  • Plamen Tchoukov,
  • Nikolay Panchev,
  • Tadeusz Dabros and
  • Jan Czarnecki

Electrohydrodynamic instabilities were induced in thin water-in-oil emulsion films by application of external DC electric field. The dominant wavelengths of instabilities were measured for constant electric fields of various strengths. The dominant w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,642 Views
18 Pages

Anisotropic Microparticles with a Controllable Structure via Soap-Free Seeded Emulsion Polymerization

  • Yanping Duan,
  • Xia Zhao,
  • Xiang Nan,
  • Zhifeng Sun,
  • Xiaoyun Lei,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Hong Hao and
  • Jianfang Li

3 January 2025

Anisotropic particles have a wide range of applications in materials science such as emulsion stabilization, oil–water separation, and catalysis due to their asymmetric structure and properties. Nevertheless, designing and synthesizing large qu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,766 Views
36 Pages

Crude oil emulsions continue to pose significant challenges across production, transportation, and refining due to their inherent stability and complex interfacial chemistry. Their persistence is driven by the synergistic effects of asphaltenes, resi...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,604 Views
9 Pages

14 July 2016

The biodegradable cellular capsule, being prepared from simple vaporization of liquid marbles, is an ideal vehicle for the potential application of drug encapsulation and release. This paper reports the fabrication of cellular capsules via facile vap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
12,015 Views
12 Pages

An Emulsion System Based on a Chip Polymerase Chain Reaction

  • Qinyu Ge,
  • Pinfei Yu,
  • Yunfei Bai and
  • Zuhong Lu

9 December 2008

In this paper we describe a novel method for detecting many DNA fragments through efficient amplification by using an emulsion system based on “on-chip” PCR instead of conventional multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR). During the preparation of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,422 Views
30 Pages

Development and Evaluation of a Dry Emulsion of Ostrich Oil as a Dietary Supplement

  • Juthaporn Ponphaiboon,
  • Sontaya Limmatvapirat and
  • Chutima Limmatvapirat

17 August 2024

This study aimed to develop a high-quality dry emulsion incorporating omega-3, 6, and 9 fatty acid-rich ostrich oil for use as a dietary supplement. Extracted from abdominal adipose tissues using a low-temperature wet rendering method, the ostrich oi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,939 Views
11 Pages

Physico-Chemical Study of Curcumin and Its Application in O/W/O Multiple Emulsion

  • Kristýna Opustilová,
  • Barbora Lapčíková,
  • Lubomír Lapčík,
  • Shweta Gautam,
  • Tomáš Valenta and
  • Peng Li

25 March 2023

Curcuma is a world-renowned herb known for its immense health benefits. In this study, physicochemical analyses were performed on the curcumin standard sample and curcumin multiple emulsions. The emulsions were analysed for thermal and structural sta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,255 Views
10 Pages

23 December 2024

As a small-molecule gelator used as a stabilizer in gel emulsions, it has numerous advantages, such as low dosage, independence from phase ratios, and ease of control. In this study, a cholesterol derivative (CSA) was designed and synthesized to be u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,491 Views
15 Pages

13 November 2021

Making Antarctic krill oil into emulsion is a good way to utilize Antarctic krill, but proliferation of microorganisms cannot be ignored. H2O2 is widely used in the sterilization of liquid food since its decomposition products are environmentally fri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,065 Views
12 Pages

23 May 2022

A typical emulsion contains oil and water phases, and these two phases can be combined by an emulsifier with both lipophilic and hydrophilic groups to form a mixture. If the component of water is more than oil, the mixture is termed as o/w emulsion....

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,446 Views
8 Pages

A Dewetting Model for Double-Emulsion Droplets

  • Zhanxiao Kang,
  • Pingan Zhu,
  • Tiantian Kong and
  • Liqiu Wang

1 November 2016

The evolution of double-emulsion droplets is of great importance for the application of microdroplets and microparticles. We study the driving force of the dewetting process, the equilibrium configuration and the dewetting time of double-emulsion dro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,315 Views
8 Pages

Emulsion-Based Intradermal Delivery of Melittin in Rats

  • Sang Mi Han,
  • Se Gun Kim and
  • Sok Cheon Pak

Bee venom (BV) has long been used as a traditional medicine. The aim of the present study was to formulate a BV emulsion with good rheological properties for dermal application and investigate the effect of formulation on the permeation of melittin t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
72 Citations
11,714 Views
22 Pages

27 July 2016

The aim of this paper is to review the key findings about how particle-stabilised (or Pickering) emulsions respond to stress and break down. Over the last ten years, new insights have been gained into how particles attached to droplet (and bubble) su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,138 Views
14 Pages

Squalene Emulsion Manufacturing Process Scale-Up for Enhanced Global Pandemic Response

  • Tony Phan,
  • Christian Devine,
  • Erik D. Laursen,
  • Adrian Simpson,
  • Aaron Kahn,
  • Amit P. Khandhar,
  • Steven Mesite,
  • Brad Besse,
  • Ken J. Mabery and
  • Christopher B. Fox
  • + 1 author

Squalene emulsions are among the most widely employed vaccine adjuvant formulations. Among the demonstrated benefits of squalene emulsions is the ability to enable vaccine antigen dose sparing, an important consideration for pandemic response. In ord...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,780 Views
17 Pages

A Comprehensive Review of the Influence of Sensitizers on the Detonation Properties of Emulsion Explosives

  • Andrzej Maranda,
  • Dorota Markowska,
  • Bożena Kukfisz and
  • Weronika Jakubczak

24 February 2025

Emulsion explosives are extensively utilized in the global mining industry due to their superior water resistance, high safety standards, cost-efficiency, and robust performance. The basic component of these explosives is a water-in-oil emulsion matr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
6,865 Views
13 Pages

2 April 2021

Polyglycerol polyricinolate (PGPR) and polyglycerol-2 dioleate were selected as model surfactants to construct water-in-oil (W/O) emulsions, and the effect of interfacial rheological properties of surfactant film on the stability of emulsions were in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,331 Views
20 Pages

Experimental Study and Numerical Simulation of W/O Emulsion in Developing Heavy Oil Reservoirs

  • Kaixuan Wang,
  • Pengcheng Liu,
  • Bojun Wang,
  • Chao Wang,
  • Peng Liu,
  • Jiu Zhao,
  • Junwei Chen and
  • Jipeng Zhang

21 November 2022

In the process of waterflooding development of heavy oil, W/O emulsion has a strong ability to improve the mobility ratio and block the high-permeability layer, which can effectively improve the sweep coefficient and enhance oil recovery. In this pap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,435 Views
17 Pages

Influence of Different Modifiers on Bonding Strength and Rheological Performance of Bitumen Emulsion

  • Changluan Pan,
  • Deqiang Liang,
  • Liantong Mo,
  • Martin Riara and
  • Juntao Lin

29 July 2019

Styrene butadiene rubber latex (SBR), waterborne epoxy adhesive (WE) and colloidal silica sol (SiO2) were used to prepare modified bitumen emulsion for cold mix asphalt. The modification effects of the individual modifiers and the combination of thes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,214 Views
19 Pages

20 August 2022

Astaxanthin loaded Pickering emulsion with zein/sodium alginate (SA) as a stabilizer (named as APEs) was developed, and its structure and stability were characterized. The encapsulation efficiency of astaxanthin (Asta) in APEs was up to 86.7 ±...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,042 Views
8 Pages

11 March 2018

A system for measuring small oil droplets in an oil-in-water (O/W) emulsion was developed using multiphoton ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. In the present study, a capillary column with an inner diameter of 15 µm was used for sample intr...

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