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. 2020 Aug 12;8:875. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2020.00875

TABLE 1.

Commonly used surfactants in HIPEs of various polymer systems.

Emulsion type Emulsifier HLB/type Polymer References
w/o Polyglycerol polyricinoleate (PGPR) ∼3 (Surh et al., 2007)
Nonionic
1,6-Diisocyanatohexane and Polycaprolactone triol David and Silverstein, 2009
Propylene fumarate dimethacrylate Moglia et al., 2011, 2014c; Robinson et al., 2014
Sorbitan monooleate (Span 80) 4.3 (Kassem et al., 2019) Nonionic Propylene fumarate (diacrylate) Christenson et al., 2007
Styrene/divinylbenzene Akay et al., 2004; Hayman et al., 2005
2-Ethylhexyl acrylate (EHA) and isobornyl acrylate (IBOA) Pierre et al., 2006
Hypermer 246 5–6 (Audouin and Heise, 2014)
Nonionic
2-Ethylhexyl acrylate (EHA) and isobornyl acrylate (IBOA) Johnson et al., 2013; Malayeri et al., 2016; Owen et al., 2016; Wang et al., 2016
Thiolene Lovelady et al., 2011; Richardson et al., 2019
Polycaprolactone tetramethacrylate Aldemir Dikici et al., 2019a,b
Brij-58 15.7 (Thakare et al., 2017)
Nonionic
Polycaprolactone Samanta et al., 2016a
Pluronic L121 1 (Amiji, 2004)
Nonionic
Tetrakis-3-mercaptopropionate and divinyladipate Naranda et al., 2016
Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) 10 (Prakash, 2010)
Cationic
Styrene/divinylbenzene Zhang and Chen, 2007

o/w Triton X-405 17.9 (Slinde and Flatmark, 1976)
Nonionic
Alginate methacrylate Barbetta et al., 2009; Zhou et al., 2013
Dextran
Dextran-b-PolyNIPAAm (Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide))
Zhou et al., 2012b
Gelatin methacrylate Barbetta et al., 2005a,b
Pullulan methacrylate Barbetta et al., 2005a
Dextran methacrylate Barbetta et al., 2005a
Alginate Barbetta et al., 2009
Acrylic acid Krajnc et al., 2005