ArticlePloS one2017
Interfacial mechanisms for stability of surfactant-laden films.
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- From Individual Liquid Films to Macroscopic Foam Dynamics: A Comparison between Polymers and a Nonionic Surfactant.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2022Article
- Perspective: Biochemical and Physical Constraints Associated With Preparing Thin Specimens for Single-Particle Cryo-EM.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2022Article
- Stability of Liquid Films Formed by a Single Bubble and Droplet at Liquid/Gas and Liquid/Liquid Interfaces in Bovine Serum Albumin Solutions.ACS omega · 2021Article
- The Life of a Surface Bubble.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- A Study of the Stability Mechanism of the Dispersed Particle Gel Three-Phase Foam Using the Interfacial Dilational Rheology Method.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
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Abstract
Thin liquid films are central to everyday life. They are ubiquitous in modern technology (pharmaceuticals, coatings), consumer products (foams, emulsions) and also serve vital biological functions (tear film of the eye, pulmonary surfactants in the lung). A common feature in all these examples is the presence of surface-active molecules at the air-liquid interface. Though they form only molecular-thin layers, these surfactants produce complex surface stresses on the free surface, which have important consequences for the dynamics and stability of the underlying thin liquid film. Here we conduct simple thinning experiments to explore the fundamental mechanisms that allow the surfactant molecules to slow the gravity-driven drainage of the underlying film. We present a simple model that works for both soluble and insoluble surfactant systems in the limit of negligible adsorption-desorption dynamics. We show that surfactants with finite surface rheology influence bulk flow through viscoelastic interfacial stresses, while surfactants with inviscid surfaces achieve stability through opposing surface-tension induced Marangoni flows.
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