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Reversible assembly of pH responsive branched copolymer-stabilised emulsion via electrostatic forces
Anthony L B Maçon1, Saif Ur Rehman1, Robert V Bell1
1Imperial College London, Materials Department, Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ, London, UK. maconanthony@icloud.com.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|October 28, 2015
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The judicious compositional and structural design of a branched co-polymeric surfactant allows for the production of highly stable oil in water emulsion droplets with reversible electrostatic aggregation behaviour.
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