Oil-in-Water Emulsion Droplets and Micelles of the Stabilizing Surfactant

3 Oil-in-Water Emulsion Droplets and Micelles of the Stabilizing Surfactant 

It is clear that the micellar volume fraction needed to cause phase separation decreases with increasing size of the oil droplets. This is not surprising as the 

5 Phase Transitions of Hard Spheres Plus Colloids 

Strength of the depletion interaetion is directly proportional to T / T2, see (2.95) with Ti = 2R and T2 = a. Bibettc [31] made clever use of this fact by devising a method to size fractionate a polydisperse emulsion using the micelle depletion induced fluid—solid transition. 

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