Porous hydrogels: Present challenges and future opportunities

R Foudazi, R Zowada, I Manas-Zloczower, DL Feke - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
In this feature article, we critically review the physical properties of porous hydrogels and
their production methods. Our main focus is nondense hydrogels that have physical pores …

Stabilising emulsion‐based colloidal structures with mixed food ingredients

E Dickinson - Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The physical scientist views food as a complex form of soft matter. The complexity has its
origin in the numerous ingredients that are typically mixed together and the subtle variations …

Flow in foams and flowing foams

S Cohen-Addad, R Höhler… - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Aqueous foams are complex fluids composed of gas bubbles tightly packed in a surfactant
solution. Even though they generally consist only of Newtonian fluids, foam flow obeys …

Effect of particles and aggregated structures on the foam stability and aging

AL Fameau, A Salonen - Comptes …, 2014 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
Les mousses aqueuses sont formées de bulles d'air dispersées dans une phase aqueuse.
En dépit de la simplicité de ces ingrédients, les mousses qui en résultent peuvent offrir une …

Emulsion and Foam Templating—Promising Routes to Tailor‐Made Porous Polymers

C Stubenrauch, A Menner, A Bismarck… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Emulsions, foams, and foamed emulsions have been used successfully as templates for the
synthesis of macroporous polymers. Based on this knowledge this Minireview presents …

Surfactant screening for foam EOR: Correlation between bulk and core-flood experiments

SA Jones, V Van Der Bent, R Farajzadeh… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2016 - Elsevier
Aqueous foams play an important role in many industrial processes, from ore separation by
froth flotation to enhanced oil recovery (EOR). In the latter case, the foam is used as a means …

Oleofoams and emulsion foams stabilized by sodium stearoyl lactylate: Insight into their relations based on microstructure, rheology and tribology

L Du, Z Meng - Food Hydrocolloids, 2023 - Elsevier
Herein, three types of oil-containing foams, including oleofoams (OF), W/O and O/W
emulsion gel foams (EGFs), with high overrun and desirable sha** properties were …

Liquid foam templating–A route to tailor-made polymer foams

S Andrieux, A Quell, C Stubenrauch… - Advances in colloid and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Solid foams with pore sizes between a few micrometres and a few millimetres are heavily
exploited in a wide range of established and emerging applications. While the optimisation …

The rheological behavior of energized fluids and foams with application to hydraulic fracturing

SA Faroughi, AJCJ Pruvot, J McAndrew - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The use of aqueous energized fluids and foams for hydraulic fracturing reduces water
consumption and formation damage, while improving proppant transport and placement …

Stability and Flow Properties of Oil-Based Foam Generated by CO2

S Li, Q Wang, Z Li - SPE Journal, 2020 - onepetro.org
Foam flooding is an important method used to protect oil reservoirs and increase oil
production. However, the research on foam fluid is generally focused on aqueous foam, and …