JOURNAL ARTICLE

Self-assembly and structures of nanoscale double emulsion droplets through coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations

Qiubo ChenJianwei Zheng

Year: 2023 Journal:   Soft Matter Vol: 19 (40)Pages: 7731-7743   Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry

Abstract

Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations demonstrate that an oil-in-water-in-oil (O/W/O) double emulsion forms in ternary mixtures of water, n -heptane, and tetraethylene glycol monododecyl ether (C12E4) when the water/C12E4 volume ratio = 1/1.

Keywords:
Molecular dynamics Emulsion Ternary operation Nanoscopic scale Heptane Water in oil Chemical engineering Chemical physics Materials science Volume (thermodynamics) Ether Chemistry Nanotechnology Thermodynamics Organic chemistry Computational chemistry Physics

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