Polymerizable bijels prepared by a direct-mixing method

Abstract

A simple direct-mixing method was proposed to use a union of silica particles and amino-capped silicone oil (diNH₂-PDMS) as stabilizers to form bicontinuous emulsion gels (bijels) in wide mixing proportions of silica particle/diNH₂-PDMS and oil/water with a tunable channel size of the spatial continuity, which was verified by the three-dimensional reconstruction viewer and curvature analysis. By direct polymerization of the oil phase as a template, solid materials were obtained with interconnected structures.