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Julien Mougel
Oscar Alvarez
Aging of an unstable w/o gel emulsion
Christophe Baravian
François Caton
with a nonionic surfactant
Philippe Marchal
Marie-José Stébé
Lionel Choplin
R0 (µm)
95%
spect to the volume fraction. We follow the temporal
evolution of two properties of the emulsion: the elastic 1
R (µm)
20
modulus and the average radius of droplets. 93.5%
92%
Coalescence 10
93.5% (stabilized)
We present on Fig. 2 the results obtained with the steady
light transport apparatus. First, we observe that the average 71%
size of droplets increases during time. Two tests were done 0
at a volume fraction of 95%, showing an excellent 1 10 100
reproducibility (see Fig. 2). To verify that the measured t-t0 (hours)
size evolution is significant, a stabilized emulsion at φ ¼
93:5% was prepared by adding NaCl (about 2.5% weight Fig. 2 Time evolution of average particle radius R for various
of the aqueous phase). Compared to the nonstabilized one, volume fractions. Experimental points, solid lines are the best fits of
Eq. 1. þ Stabilized emulsion at 93.5% in volume fraction. Insert:
the evolution of the stabilized emulsion is negligible. We initial radius as a function of volume fraction , solid line
also notice that whatever the volume fraction, the same 0:795=ð1 Þ. For clarity reason, not all the data are plotted
agitation rate is used during the preparation process so that
the first measured radius R0 is different for each sample.
The graphic in the insert of Fig. 2 shows that the variation
of R0 with the volume fraction φ of water droplets is where ω is the coalescence rate, R0 and t0 correspond to
proportional to 1=ð1 φÞ with a factor of 0:795μ m in the the first measurement. A standard least square adjustment
whole range of volume fraction. We verified that every- of Eq. 1 to experimental curves (see Fig. 2) allows the
thing else being equal, a different R0 (obtained by determination of ω for each sample. This coalescence rate
changing the agitation rate) does not significantly change is known, for a given volume fraction, to be strongly
the kinetics. dependent on the HLB (Aronson and Petko 1993). Figure 3
For all samples (from φ ¼ 0:71 to 0.95), we verify that shows that ω increases with the volume fraction until
the average radius follows a t 1=3 evolution law: φ1 ’ 0:75, then remains constant until φ2 ’ 0:90 , and
finally increases again. φ1 and φ2 could be related to the
RðtÞ ¼ ½R30 þ ω ðt t0 Þ1=3; (1) clustering of droplets from the close maximum packing
fraction without significant deformation to a polyhedral
1000
shape when φ2 is reached.
95% 0.1
800 93.5%
92%
600
85%
G’ (Pa)
0.01
ω (µm3/s)
78%
400
0.001
200
0
1 10 100 0.0001
t-t0 (hours) 0.7 0.8 0.9 1
Volume fraction φ
Fig. 1 Evolution of the samples elastic modulus G0 at various
volume fractions. For clarity reason, not all the data are plotted Fig. 3 Variation of the coalescence rate ! with the volume fraction
Fig. 4 G0 vs R. Except for the 7
sample at 73% in volume
fraction, the basic plot of the Slope -2
data shows that, in our case,
G0 is correlated with 1=R2 6.5 92%
85%
Ln G’ (Pa)
6
75% 95%
5.5
90%
73% 93.5%
5
78%
Slope -1
4.5
1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5
Ln R (µm)
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