The
Prof. Bernie P. Binks
BSc, PhD, CChem FRSC Professor of
Physical Chemistry
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Education
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B.Sc. Chemistry (First Class Honours), 1983,
Ph.D. Surface Chemistry, 1986,
Postdoctoral assistant, 1987, École
Normale Supérieure, Paris.
Postdoctoral assistant, 1988-1991,
Lecturer in Chemistry, 1991,
Reader in Physical Chemistry, 1998-2003,
University of Hull.
Professor of Physical Chemistry, 2003-present,
University of Hull.
Secretary, Colloid and Interface Science Group
(RSC).
Section Editor, Current Opinion in Colloid and
Interface Science.
Member EPSRC Peer Review College.
Member of Editorial Board of Physical
Chemistry Chemical Physics (http://www.rsc.org/pccp) of The RSC from Jan. 2006
Please see the RSC journals homepage for an example of how
it can be used - http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/
Research Interests
Adsorption and aggregation of surfactants
Emulsions and foams stabilized by solid
particles
Structure, rigidity and wetting of surfactant
monolayers
Polymerisation of microemulsion and emulsion
drops
Foams and antifoams
Particle layers at planar liquid surfaces
Evaporation of components from colloidal
formulations
Aqueous and non-aqueous colloids
High internal phase emulsion gels
Multiple emulsions
Particle-Surfactant
Mixtures at Fluid Interfaces (TBA)
Encapsulating Fragrances (Ben Holt)
Particle Mixtures
(Wenhui Liu)
Stimuli responsive particulate emulsifiers (Ryo Murakami)
Particles at surfaces (Anais Rocher)
Corrosion inhibition (Ibrahim Salama)
Oil Foams (Emma Sharp)
Soliubilisation
of Oils in Water (George
Marinov)
Particle-surfactant
interactions in emulsions (Jhonny Rodrigues)
Particle-stabilised
foams (Dulce Braz)
Particles in
surfactant-stabilised emulsions (Alexandre Desforges)
Emulsions
stabilised by surfactant and particles (John Philip)
Enzymes
and detergency (Rebecca
Allen)
Removal
of particles from solid surfaces (Zhenggang Cui)
Rheology
of drilling fluids (Catherine
Whitby)
The Lotus
effect-Engineering surfaces (Tommy
Horozov)
In
situ preparation of Janus particles (Tim
Lees)
Corrosion
inhibition (Jake
Hicks)
Pharmaceutical Ramsden emulsions (Jhonny Rodrigues)
Selected Publications
“Insoluble monolayers of weakly
ionising low molar mass materials and their deposition to form Langmuir-Blodgett
multilayers”.
B.P. Binks.
Adv. Colloid Interface Sci., 34, 343-432 (1991).
“Particle-stabilized
emulsions: a bilayer or a bridging monolayer?”
B.P. Binks (with T.S. Horozov).
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 45,
773-776 (2006).
“Wetting phenomena at the
CO2/water/glass interface”.
B.P. Binks (with J.L. Dickson, G.
Gupta, T.S. Horozov, and K.P. Johnston).
Langmuir, 22, 2161-2170 (2006).
“Growth of gold nanoparticle films
driven by coalescence of particle-stabilized emulsion drops”.
B.P. Binks (with J.H. Clint,
P.D.I. Fletcher, T.J. Lees and P. Taylor).
Langmuir, 22, 4100-4103 (2006).
“Phase inversion of
particle-stabilized materials from foams to dry water”.
B.P. Binks (with R. Murakami).
Nature Mater., 5, 865-869 (2006).
“Particle film growth driven by foam
bubble coalescence”.
B.P.
Binks (with J.H. Clint, P.D.I. Fletcher, T.J.G. Lees and P. Taylor).
Chem.
Commun., 3531-3533 (2006).
“Emulsification of partially miscible
liquids using colloidal particles: nonspherical and extended domain
structures”.
B.P.
Binks (with P.S. Clegg, E.M. Herzig, A.B. Schofield, S.U. Egelhaaf, T.S.
Horozov, M.E. Cates and W.C.K. Poon).
Langmuir,
23, 5984-5994 (2007).
“Synergistic interaction in emulsions
stabilized by a mixture of silica nanoparticles and cationic surfactant”.
B.P.
Binks (with J.A. Rodrigues and W.J. Frith).
Langmuir,
23, 3626-3636 (2007).
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