Professor Bernie Binks

Professor Bernie Binks

Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry

B.P.Binks@hull.ac.uk

Qualifications

  • BSc (University of Hull)
  • PhD / DPhil (University of Hull)
  • FHEA (University of Hull)

Summary

Professor Binks' research is primarily concerned with materials chemistry. He is a physical chemist with research interests in surfactants, foams, emulsions and colloidal particles at interfaces.

He was the Director of the Surfactant and Colloid Group for 15 years, a leading UK research group in surface and colloid chemistry.

A large proportion of Professor Binks' research funding comes from industry as his work is on the fundamental science underpinning the behaviour of many important formulations (food, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, paint).

Professor Binks has also recently overseen a Knowledge Transfer Partnership between the University and leading edible oils manufacturer AAK.

Pioneered a new area of interface science, that of the behaviour of small solid particles at fluid-fluid interfaces. This is very relevant to e.g. crude oil emulsions, aerated foods and the process of froth flotation.The interfaces include oil-water, air-water, oil-oil, air-oil and water-water.

In addition to investigating the basic science, we have been preparing novel materials involving fluid interfaces ranging from dry water to dry oil to powdered emulsions to multiple emulsions.

Invited by Langmuir to write a feature article of the area which will be published in July 2017.

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

3D printing of Pickering emulsions, Pickering foams and capillary suspensions – A review of stabilization, rheology and applications

Tyowua, A. T., Harbottle, D., & Binks, B. P. (2024). 3D printing of Pickering emulsions, Pickering foams and capillary suspensions – A review of stabilization, rheology and applications. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 332, Article 103274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cis.2024.103274

Cholic Acid/Glutathione-Assembled Nanofibrils for Stabilizing Pickering Emulsion Biogels

Bi, W., Le, M., Jia, Y. G., Bao, Z., Sun, S., Wang, C., Binks, B. P., & Chen, Y. (online). Cholic Acid/Glutathione-Assembled Nanofibrils for Stabilizing Pickering Emulsion Biogels. Small, https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202403667

Pickering emulsion droplets and solid microspheres acting synergistically for continuous-flow cascade reactions

Zhang, M., Ettelaie, R., Li, T., Yang, J., Dong, L., Xue, N., Binks, B. P., Cheng, F., & Yang, H. (2024). Pickering emulsion droplets and solid microspheres acting synergistically for continuous-flow cascade reactions. Nature Catalysis, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-024-01110-x

Competition between hydrogen bonding and electrostatic repulsion in pH-switchable emulsions

Lv, M., Shi, J., Binks, B. P., Jiang, J., & Cui, Z. (2023). Competition between hydrogen bonding and electrostatic repulsion in pH-switchable emulsions. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 390(B), Article 123095. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2023.123095

Light-Driven Spatiotemporal Pickering Emulsion Droplet Manipulation Enabled by Plasmonic Hybrid Microgels

Guan, X., Cheng, G., Ho, Y. P., Binks, B. P., & Ngai, T. (2023). Light-Driven Spatiotemporal Pickering Emulsion Droplet Manipulation Enabled by Plasmonic Hybrid Microgels. Small, 19(47), Article 2304207. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202304207

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Catalyst Cascade Reactions in ‘One-Flow’ within a Compartmentalized, Green-Solvent ‘Digital Synthesis Machinery’ – End-to-End Green Process Design for Pharmaceuticals

Funder

EC European Commission

Grant

£275,738.00

Started

1 January 2017

Status

Complete

Project

Emulsions stabilised by soft particles

Funder

Shiseido

Grant

£87,886.00

Started

1 March 2015

Status

Complete

Project

Crude Oil Pour Point Depressants – Screening And Design Of New Products

Funder

Lubrizol Limited

Grant

£86,262.00

Started

28 September 2015

Status

Complete

Postgraduate supervision

I welcome applications from BSc or MChem graduates with either a 1st or 2.1 Honours degree and interest in physical chemistry/nanotechnology.

Completed PhDs

I. Marinopoulos, 2016, Photochemical and Evaporation Behaviour of Sunscreen Formulations.

S.A. Darragh, 2015, Encapsulation of Fluids by Solid Particles.

A.T. Tyowua, 2014, Solid Particles at Fluid Interfaces: Emulsions, Liquid Marbles, Dry Oil Powders and Oil Foams.

S. Mashinchi, 2014, Aqueous Foams and Aerated Oil-in-Water Emulsions Partly Stabilised by Edible Particles.

Current PhD supervisors

K. Scarth, Novel Corrosion Inhibitors of Steel Surfaces.

A.M. Bago Rodriguez, Stabilisation of Emulsion by Polyelectrolyte Complexes.

S.O. Olusanya, Oil-Water Emulsions Stabilised Solely by Organic Pigment Particles.

C. Holmes, Wax Inhibition in Oil by Polymer Addition.

H. Shi, Aqueous Foams Stabilised by Surfactant Crystals.

R. Zheng, Influence of Salt Type on the Adsorption of Hydrophilic Particles to Oil-Water Interfaces.E.S. Park, Catalytic Behaviour of Emulsions Stabilised by Macroparticles involving Palladium.

D.J. Turner, Performance of Emulsions Stabilised by Brucite Particles (MSc).

Y. Liu, Oil Foams.

Awards and prizes

Lectureship Award, Div. Colloid and Surface Chemistry, Chemical Society Japan

2024 - 2024

Overbeek Gold Medal, European Colloid and Interface Society

2023 - 2023

Research Excellence Award (outstanding research contribution)

2022 - 2022

Sir Eric Rideal Award and Lecture, RSC/SCI

2022 - 2022

R&D for Society Award, SCI Yorkshire and the Humber Regional Group

2022 - 2022

Awardee of 100 Talent Program from Shanxi Province for 5 yrs.

2021 - 2021

Research Excellence Award (outstanding published output)

2020 - 2020

Langmuir Lecturer Award, Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry of the American Chemical Society

2016 - 2016

<10% of recipients have been non-US over 40 years

Surfaces and Interfaces Award, Faraday Division of the RSC

2014 - 2014

European Colloid and Interface Society-Rhodia Prize

2011 - 2011

Andrew Main Lecturer Award, University of Alberta, Canada

2009 - 2009

Colloid & Interface Science Group Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

2004 - 2004

Committee/Steering group role

Awards Nomination Committee, Colloid Division of American Chemical Society

2016 - 2018

Award Selection Committee, Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry

2014 - 2016

Secretary of Colloid & Interface Science Group Committee of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

1997 - 2002

Ordinary Member of Colloid & Interface Science Group Committee of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

1994 - 1997

Ordinary Member of the Colloid & Surface Chemistry Group Committee of the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI)

1993 - 1996

Membership/Fellowship of professional body

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

2017

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)

2000

Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC) & Chartered Chemist (CChem)

1987 - 2000

Visiting/Invited Professor

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanxi University, China

2020 - 2025

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