Water Droplets Tailored as Wax Crystal Carriers to Mitigate Wax Deposition of Emulsion.

ABSTRACT: This study explores how the micro-distribution change of wax crystals from the continuous oil phase to the oil-water interface mitigates the macro wax deposition of an emulsion. Two types of interfacial actions between wax crystals and water droplets, interfacial adsorption and interfacial crystallization, which were induced by two different emulsifiers, sorbitan monooleate (Span 80) and sorbitan monostearate (Span 60), respectively, were detected by differential scanning calorimetry and microscopy observation. The wax interfacial crystallization promoted by Span 60 resulted in the wax being nucleated directly at the oil-water interface prior to the continuous oil phase, conferring the nascent wax crystals and water droplets to be combined as coupled particles. The utilization of the wax i

SUBMITTER: Ma Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9979368 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature