Stability of additive-free water-in-oil emulsions

Details Stability of additive-free water-in-oil emulsions Stability of additive-free water-in-oil emulsions

2008-10-09

arxiv.org/abs/0810.1618v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

9 pages, 4 figures, accepted by JPCM for proceedings of LMC7

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-8984/20/49/494238

We calculate ion distributions near a planar oil-water interface within non-linear Poisson-Boltzmann theory, taking into account the Born self-energy of the ions in the two media. For unequal self-energies of cations and anions, a spontaneous charge separation is found such that the water and oil phase become oppositely charged, in slabs with a typical thickness of the Debye screening length in the two media. From the analytical solutions, the corresponding interfacial charge density and the contribution to the interfacial tension is derived, together with an estimate for the Yukawa-potential between two spherical water droplets in oil. The parameter regime is explored where the plasma coupling parameter exceeds the crystallization threshold, i.e. where the droplets are expected to form crystalline structures due to a strong Yukawa repulsion, as recently observed experimentally. Extensions of the theory that we discuss briefly include numerical calculations on spherical water droplets in oil, and analytical calculations of the linear PB-equation for a finite oil-water interfacial width.

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