Monodisperse emulsions

With our technology both monodisperse oil in water (O/W) and water in oil (W/O) emulsions can be made. Monodispersity allows for picking the droplet size to obtain optimal product performance. In addition, stabilizing monodisperse emulsions requires less emulsifier due to the absence of the Oswald ripening phenomenon. The technology is compatible with almost all chemically aggressive ingredients and in addition heat and shear sensitive ingredients can be used without problems.

Monodisperse double emulsions

Due to the absence of an imposed shear in the droplet formation process, our technology can be used to produce double emulsions with a very high encapsulation yield. Typical examples of double emulsions are water in oil in water (W/O/W), oil in water in oil (O/W/O) and solid in oil in water (S/O/W) emulsions. In general the composite droplets are formed by emulsification of an emulsion or suspension prepared by conventional emulsification methods. In that case a homogeneous polydisperse distribution of small droplets can be found inside each composite droplet. It is possible to prepare the pre-emulsion with our technology as well. In that case the composite droplet will be of the core-shell type. The Nanomi technology is especially suited for the emulsification of a suspension with relatively large particles due to the relatively low droplet size to pore diameter ratio.