Issue 92, 2016, Issue in Progress

Pickering emulsion gels based on insoluble chitosan/gelatin electrostatic complexes

Abstract

Food-grade colloidal particles or complexes made from natural polymers via noncovalent interactions can be good candidates for applications in food and non-food industries. In this work, insoluble chitosan/gelatin-B (CH/GB) complex particles were used for the first time as effective Pickering emulsifiers to make long-term stable oil-in-water emulsions and emulsion gels by one-step homogenization. The CH/GB complexes were only formed in the oppositely charged pH region via electrostatic complexation of CH and GB, and the pH showed a remarkable effect on the surface activity of CH/GB mixed systems. The presence of CH/GB insoluble complexes significantly decreased the surface tension of the oil/water interface, therefore benefitting the formation of smaller emulsion droplet sizes and effectively hindering droplet coalescence, as supported by the increase of emulsion long-term stability. Increasing the oil volume fraction considerably accelerated the formation of a droplet network structure, resulting in a solid-like thermoreversible emulsion gel with tunable viscoelastic properties. Our results suggest that CH/GB insoluble complex particles are promising particulate emulsifiers for the preparation of surfactant-free Pickering emulsions as well as emulsion gels.

Graphical abstract: Pickering emulsion gels based on insoluble chitosan/gelatin electrostatic complexes

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
21 Apr 2016
Accepted
12 Sep 2016
First published
13 Sep 2016

RSC Adv., 2016,6, 89776-89784

Pickering emulsion gels based on insoluble chitosan/gelatin electrostatic complexes

X. Wang and M. Heuzey, RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 89776 DOI: 10.1039/C6RA10378B

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