Reacting To The Hipe

摘要

Emulsions, such as salad dressing, consist of two immiscible liquids that are blended together to form droplets of one liquid suspended in the other. Emulsifiers and stabilizers can be added to prevent the droplets from coalescing, and when the dispersed phase occupies more than 74% of the volume, the mixture is known as a high internal phase emulsion (HIPE). Gitli and Silverstein prepared HIPEs with styrene or 2-ethylhexyl acrylate monomer in the oil phase and acrylamide monomer in the aqueous phase.