Reversibly thermosecreting and convertible lubricative oil-in-water mixtures using multiple hydrogen bonding interactions

Reversibly thermosecreting and convertible lubricative oil-in-water mixtures using multiple hydrogen bonding interactions

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Abstract Achieving homogeneous oil and water mixing requires thorough droplet dispersions of both liquids.An additional component, such as a surfactant, particle, solvent or ion is normally required to stabilize the small liquid droplets by providing sufficiently low interfacial tensions or strong repulsive forces.Here we show that very stable oil-in-water mixtures empire bump hair can be created even at very high oil volume fractions by building multiple, high-strength hydrogen bonding interactions between water and a biocompatible and biodegradable oil trimethylolpropane trioleate, which make the oil molecules at the contact interface behave as pseudo-surfactants with ultrahigh interfacial activity.

The resultant oil microdroplets can be reversibly thermosecreted from the continuous aqueous phase and lead to controllable formation/dissociation and switchable lubrication of the binary liquid mixture owing to the inherent thermal responsiveness of the intermolecular hydrogen bonding.Interestingly, although water is uncovered to possess a relatively poor lubricity, the liquid mixture yields an optimized lubrication that is even exceedingly comparable to pure oil at a water volume fraction as high bodega de san antonio sangria as 80%.