Dispersed Systems FDSC Version

Goals Scales and Types of Structure in Food Surface Tension Curved Surfaces Surface Active Materials Charged Surfaces

COLLOIDAL SCALE

Dispersed Systems A kinetically stable mixture of one phase in another largely immiscible phase. Usually at least one length scale is in the colloidal range.

Dispersed Systems Dispersed phase Continuous phase Interface

SolidLiquidGas SolidSome glasses SolSmoke LiquidEmulsionAerosol GasSolid foam Foam Dispersed phase Continuous phase

Properties of Dispersed Systems Too small to see Affected by both gravitational forces and thermal diffusion Large interfacial area –SURFACE EFFECTS ARE IMPORTANT

Increased Surface Area The same oil is split into 0.1 cm radius droplets, each has a volume of cm 3 and a surface area cm 2. As we need about 5000 droplets we would have a total area of 625 cm 2 We have 20 cm 3 of oil in 1 cm radius droplets. Each has a volume of (4/3. .r 3 ) 5.5 cm 3 and a surface area of (4. .r 2 ) 12.5 cm 2. As we need about 3.6 droplets we would have a total area of 45.5 cm 2

For a Fixed COMPOSITION Decrease size, increase number of particles Increase AREA of interfacial contact decrease area

Tendency to break LYOPHOBIC Weak interfacial tension Little to be gained by breaking e.g., gums LYOPHILIC Strong interfacial tension Strong energetic pressure to reduce area e.g., emulsions

Surface Tension -molecular scale-

Surface Tension -bulk scale- Area, A Force,  Interfacial energy Interfacial area Slope 

Surface Active Material Types of surfactant Surface accumulation Surface tension lowering

Types of Surfactant -small molecule- Hydrophilic head group (charged or polar) Hydrophobic tail (non-polar)

Types of Surfactant -polymeric- Polymer backbone Sequence of more water soluble subunits Sequence of less water soluble subunits

Surface Binding Equilibrium ENTHALPY COSTENTROPY COST

Surface Binding Isotherm ln Bulk concentration Surface concentration /mg m -2 Surface saturation No binding below a certain concentration

Surface Tension Lowering Bare surface (tension  0 ) Interface partly “hidden” (tension  )   Surface pressure – the ability of a surfactant to lower surface tension

Summary Small particles have a large surface area Surfaces have energy associated with them (i.e., they are unstable) because of their interfacial tension Dispersions will tend to aggregate to reduce the interfacial area Proteins and small molecule surfactants will adsorb to the surface to reduce surface tension and increase stability.

Example Dispersion: Emulsions

Emulsion A fine dispersion of one liquid in a second, largely immiscible liquid. In foods the liquids are inevitably oil and an aqueous solution.

Types of Emulsion Oil-in-water emulsion Water-in-oil emulsion Water Oil mm

Chemical Composition Interfacial layer. Essential to stabilizing the emulsion Oil Phase. Limited effects on the properties of the emulsion Aqueous Phase. Aqueous chemical reactions affect the interface and hence emulsion stability

Emulsion Size < 0.5  m  m  m >3  m

Number Distributions < 0.5  m  m  m >3  m Number Very few large droplets contain most of the oil

Median Polydispersity Large droplets often contribute most to instability (Volume in class  Total volume measured) Note log scale

Volume Fraction  =Total volume of the dispersed phase  Total volume of the system Close packing,  max Monodisperse Ideal ~0.69 Random ~0.5 Polydisperse Much greater

Emulsion Viscosity Emulsion droplets disrupt streamlines and require more effort to get the same flow rate Viscosity of emulsion Continuous phase viscosity Dispersed phase volume fraction

Emulsion Destabilization Creaming Flocculation Coalescence Combined methods

Creaming Buoyancy (Archimedes) Friction (Stokes-Einstein)  Continuous phase viscosity  density difference g Acceleration due to gravity d  droplet diameter v droplet terminal velocity v s Stokes velocity

Flocculation and Coalescence Film rupture Rehomogenization Collision and sticking (reaction) Stir or change chemical conditions FLOCCULATION COALESCENCE

Aggregation Kinetics Droplets diffuse around and will collide often In fact only a tiny proportion of collisions are reactive 2P P2P2 G GG k slow =k fast /W Function of energy barrier

Interaction Potential Non-covalent attractive and repulsive forces will act to pull droplets together (increase flocculation rate) or push them apart (decrease flocculation rate)

Van der Waals Attraction Always attractive Very short range

Electrostatic Repulsion Repulsive or attractive depending on sign of charges Magnitude depends on magnitude of the charge Gets weaker with distance but reasonably long range

Steric Repulsion Droplets approach each other Protein layers overlap Proteins repel each other mechanically & by osmotic dehydration What happens when protein molecules on different droplets are reactive?

Rheology of Flocculated Emulsions Flocculation leads to an increase in viscosity Water is trapped within the floc and must flow with the floc Effective volume fraction increased rgrg

Gelled Emulsions Thin liquid Viscous liquidGelled solid