New Insights into the Formulation and Polymerization of Pickering Emulsions Stabilized by Natural Organic Particles

Pickering emulsions are known to be an efficient and greener alternative surfactant-stabilized emulsions. Particles, as key component of these systems, responsible for their higher kinetic stability, in recent years, the use natural organic stabilizers has emerged a solution promote sustainability. By conferring them stimuli-responsiveness and/or by polymerizing emulsion itself, design smart advanced systems can achieved. Radical polymerization been far most studied route, wide range materials were successfully synthesized: foams, composites, capsules, or imprinted microspheres. Not only sustainability is improved, but also performances features generally enhanced thanks presence stabilizers. This Perspective putting into light groundbreaking efforts field emulsions, suggesting accessible material that obtained through this powerful pathway.