Aqueous dispersions

Solvent Evaporation. This encapsulation technology involves removing a volatile solvent from either an oil-in-water, oil-in-oil, or water-in-oH-in-water emulsion (19,20). In most cases, the shell material is dissolved in a volatile solvent such as methylene chloride or ethyl acetate. The active agent to be encapsulated is either dissolved, dispersed, or emulsified into this solution. Water-soluble core materials like hormonal polypeptides are dissolved in water that contains a thickening agent before dispersion in the volatile solvent phase that contains the shell material. This dispersed aqueous phase is gelled thermally to entrap the polypeptide in the dispersed aqueous phase before solvent evaporation occurs (21). 

Color intensity and permanence are improved by metal carboxylate salts, especially 2inc salts (83), which cataly2e the dye development and stabili2e the dye in its colored form. The substituted novolak resin, along with extender and binder, can be apphed to the receiving sheet as a solution or aqueous dispersion. Aqueous dispersions are probably the most widely used they are manufactured by the resin suppher or the user from the base resin. 

Heywood, N. I. and RICHARDSON, J. F. J. Rheology 22 (1978) 599. Rheological behaviour of flocculated and dispersed aqueous kaolin suspensions in pipe flow. 

Water-in-oil microemulsions (w/o-MEs), also known as reverse micelles, provide what appears to be a very unique and well-suited medium for solubilizing proteins, amino acids, and other biological molecules in a nonpolar medium. The medium consists of small aqueous-polar nanodroplets dispersed in an apolar bulk phase by surfactants (Fig. 1). Moreover, the droplet size is on the same order of magnitude as the encapsulated enzyme molecules. Typically, the medium is quite dynamic, with droplets spontaneously coalescing, exchanging materials, and reforming on the order of microseconds. Such small droplets yield a large amount of interfacial area. For many surfactants, the size of the dispersed aqueous nanodroplets is directly proportional to the water-surfactant mole ratio, also known as w. Several reviews have been written which provide more detailed discussion of the physical properties of microemulsions [1-3]. 

Demulsification with electrostatic fields appears to be the most effective and economic way for breaking of W/0 emulsion in ELM processes 190, 91]. Electrostatic coalescence is a technique widely used to separate dispersed aqueous droplets from nonconducting oils. Since this type of technique is strictly a physical process, it is most suitable for breaking emulsion liquid membranes to recover the oil membrane phase for reuse. 

There are other aerosol methods which can yield uniform powders, such as by dispersing aqueous dispersions of particles (e.g. of latex) and evaporating the water (12). In this case each droplet should contain only one particle, a task not easily accomplished. Alternatively, it is possible to nebulize solutions of electrolytes or other substances, which on removal of the liquid result in solid particles, dispersed in the carrier gas (13,14). This process has been expanded to include sintering of resulting solid aerosols in a continuous process to produce powders for various applications (15-18). 

Liquid membranes of the water-in-oil emulsion type have been extensively investigated for their applications in separation and purification procedures [6.38]. They could also allow extraction of toxic species from biological fluids and regeneration of dialysates or ultrafiltrates, as required for artificial kidneys. The substrates would diffuse through the liquid membrane and be trapped in the dispersed aqueous phase of the emulsion. Thus, the selective elimination of phosphate ions in the presence of chloride was achieved using a bis-quaternary ammonium carrier dissolved in the membrane phase of an emulsion whose internal aqueous phase contained calcium chloride leading to phosphate-chloride exchange and internal precipitation of calcium phosphate [6.1]. 

Models for the dyeing of polyester fibers with disperse dyes have been developed [8], When the dye is applied from aqueous medium, it is adsorbed from the molecularly dispersed aqueous solution onto the fiber surface and then diffuses into the interior of the fiber. The following parameters determine the rate of dyeing and, to some extent, the leveling properties (1) the dissolution rate during the transition from the dispersed crystalline state of the dye into the molecularly dispersed phase, and (2) the diffusion rate at the fiber surface and, especially, in the interior of the fiber. The rates of both processes vary with temperature. 

Abstract. The relationship of hydration properties of carbon nanoparticles in aqueous dispersions and stability of these dispersions with respect to aggregation have been studied using EPR spin probing of frozen dispersions. Aqueous dispersions of shungite carbon nanoparticles at different concentrations and aqueous colloids of fullerenes C60/C70 have been compared. Characteristic features of the bounded water have been shown to correlate with a decrease of aqueous dispersions stability to aggregation. 

In earlier work (Sherman, 1950), inversion of water-in-oil emulsions was achieved by increasing the proportion of the dispersed aqueous phase. Emulsions containing 2-5% non-ionic emulsifier and up to 50% water are Newtonian. Above this level of water, the rheological parameters increased significantly and inversion occurred at a water concentration of 75—80%. The... 

Microemulsion-Mediated Hydrothermal Synthesis Triton X-100 was served as the surfactant, n-hexanol as co-surfactant, cyclohexane as the continuous oil phase, and a solution of titanium -butoxide dissolved in an acid (HCl or HNO3) was employed as the dispersed aqueous phase. The concentration of hydrochloric acid or nitric acid ranged from 0.5 M to 2.0 M. A transparent feedstock of microemulsions was charged into a Teflon-lined stainless autoclave and hydrothermal reaction was... 

Leak-off or loss of acid through the walls of worm holes often results in worm holes being too short to provide significant productivity increase. Therefore, effective stimulation often requires retardation of the mineral dissolution rate. The use of microemulsions is one method to accomplish this retardation. The hydrochloric acid is injected as an water-in-oil microemulsion. The diffusion rate of the dispersed aqueous acid to the rock surface is slower than molecular diffusion of acid from a totally aqueous system. Thus the rate of limestone dissolution is retarded with the microemulsion system. 

The most comrnon mesophases that the bilayers assume when dispersed aqueous medium are ... 

Here we use the term "multiple drop" to describe the oil droplets in w/o/w emulsions containing dispersed aqueous droplets, "primary" surfactant the stabilizer for the w/o emulsion and "secondary" surfactant to denote the more hydrophilic surfactant used to stabilize the o/w component. The "internal" phase is the dispersed aqueous phase, the "external" phase is the continuous aqueous phase and the "middle" phase the carrier oil droplets. 

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