Recently, I saw this article in JPC (Letters):

Article The Mayonnaise Effect

Originally, (after reading the abstract because the full text is not available) I wanted to comment about this article telling the author that emulsions are no solutions, one can not explain any behaviour of emulsions by studying solutions.

The author just let me know by email that his paper "despite the title is not really about mayonnaise but about (aqueous) solutions".

That's puzzling, then if about solutions, why is the title announcing to explain the mayonnaise effect? Mayonnaise is an emulsion (hence a highly structured non-equilibrium system with self-organized dissipative structures) while solutions are equilibrium systems which don't show dissipative structures (may exhibit other but isotropic structures)

I found this web site with some photos about mayonnaise structures

http://www.ianhopkinson.org.uk/2010/05/understanding-mayonnaise/

but SEM photos of freeze dried samples would be more educative. Does anybody have such photos?

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