Abstract
The rheology of highly concentrated emulsions stabilized with bovine serum albumin and the same protein with the addition of two different cationic surfactants was studied. These materials demonstrate non-Newtonian behavior with zero-shear-rate Newtonian viscosity and rather abrupt decrease of viscosity in a narrow shear stress range. Emulsions also possess elastic properties and storage modulus does not depend on frequency. The addition of low-molecular-mass surfactant leads to the modification of all rheological properties: the viscosity, storage modulus, and yield stress decrease. Variation of the added surfactant in a very wide range shows that there is its threshold concentration, at which a surfactant substitutes protein in the interfacial layers. It was supposed that some peculiarities of emulsions under study are explained by their wide size distribution. As a result, these emulsions are possibly not “compressed” and their elasticity is mainly due to interlayer interactions rather than interfacial tension.
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