A confocal microscopy study of micron-sized poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) microgel particles at the oil-water interface and anisotopic flattening of highly swollen microgel

摘要

Hypothesis: Responsive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) microgel (PNIPAM microgel) stabilized Pickering emulsions were investigated in this study. A recent theoretical study of other researchers has suggested that large soft particles at the oil/water interface are less deformable than their small counterparts. Therefore, we expected that our micron-sized microgel particles might not significantly deform at the oil/water interface.