Entropic, electrostatic, and interfacial regimes in concentrated disordered ionic emulsions
- Kim, Ha Seong Department of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of California-Los Angeles, USA
- Scheffold, Frank Physics DepartmentUniversity of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Mason, Thomas G. Department of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of California-Los Angeles, USA - Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of California-Los Angeles, USA
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01.08.2016
Published in:
- Rheologica Acta. - 2016, vol. 55, no. 8, p. 683–697
English
We develop a free energy model that describes two key thermodynamic properties, the osmotic pressure Π and the linear elastic shear modulus G′p (i.e. plateau storage modulus), of concentrated monodisperse emulsions which have isotropic, disordered, droplet structures, and are stabilized using ionic surfactants. This model effectively incorporates the concept of random close packing or jamming of repulsive spheres into a free energy F that depends on droplet volume fraction ϕ and shear strain γ both below and above the a critical jamming point ϕc ≈ 0.646. This free energy has three terms: entropic, electrostatic, and interfacial (EEI). By minimizing F with respect to an average droplet deformation parameter that links all three terms, we show that the entropic term is dominant for ϕ well below ϕc, the electrostatic term is dominant for ϕ near but below ϕc, and the interfacial term dominates for larger ϕ. This EEI model describes measurements of G′p(ϕ) for charge-stabilized uniform emulsions having a wide range of droplet sizes, ranging from nanoscale to microscale, and it also is consistent with measurements of Π(ϕ). Moreover, it describes G′p(ϕ) for similar nanoemulsions after adding non-amphiphilic salt, when changes in the interfacial tension and the Debye screening length are properly taken into account. By unifying existing approaches, the EEI model predicts constitutive properties of concentrated ionic emulsions that have disordered, out-of-equilibrium structures through near- equilibrium free energy minimization, consistent with random driving Brownian excitations.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Physique
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Physics
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- License undefined
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- RERO DOC 277721
- DOI 10.1007/s00397-016-0946-3
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/305097
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