Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7784214 | Carbohydrate Polymers | 2018 | 28 Pages |
Abstract
In recent years, nanocelluloses have attracted a lot of interests as promising stabilizers for Pickering emulsion particularly in food, cosmetics and pharmaceutics industries. In this work, two cellulose nanocrystals (named CNCs-I and CNCs-II) with different crystalline allomorph were investigated as stabilizers for oil-water Pickering emulsion. CNCs were prepared by sulfuric acid hydrolysis of unmodified and mercerized microcrystalline cellulose (MCC), respectively. CNCs-I was needle-like particles (length - 200â¯nm, width - 16.4â¯nm), while CNCs-II was individual granules (length - 18.8â¯nm, width - 10.9â¯nm) with ellipsoid shapes. Both CNCs had surface charge density higher than 0.1â¯e/nm2. Pickering emulsions stabilized by CNCs-I had larger emulsion ratio, two times smaller droplet size and superior performance of stability than CNCs-II. It is concluded that crystalline allomorph of CNCs played more dominating roles to the stabilization of Pickering emulsion than morphologies of CNCs themselves in this work, and CNCs-II is not the good candidates as stabilizer for Pickering emulsion compared to CNCs-I.
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Authors
Xia Li, Jun Li, Jie Gong, Yishan Kuang, Lihuan Mo, Tao Song,