ArticleJournal of fluid mechanics2020
Surfactant dynamics: hidden variables controlling fluid flows.
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- Altered Scaling Dynamics in Liquid Crystal Droplet Coalescence: The Role of Surfactants and Marangoni Stresses.ACS omega · 2026Article
- How to Successfully Navigate Flatland: A Tutorial on the Rheometry of Fluid-Fluid Interfaces.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2026Article
- Orbiting, colliding, and merging liquid lenses on a soap film: Toward gravitational analogs.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- Bubble coalescence and dissolution effects on sonochemical activity in pulsed wave ultrasound systems.Ultrasonics sonochemistry · 2026Article
- Transfer Dynamics of Hydrophilic and Lipophilic Surfactants in Turbulent Oil-Water Emulsions.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2025Article
- Curvature- and temperature-dependent transport of soluble surfactant mixtures to the air-aqueous surface with applications in fluorine-free firefighting foams.Journal of colloid and interface science · 2025Article
- Understanding the Stability of Poorly Covered Pickering Emulsions Using on-Chip Microfluidics.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Thermodynamics of Surfactant-Enriched Binary-Fluid Systems.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2025Article
- New experiments and models to describe soluble surfactant adsorption above and below the critical micelle concentration.Journal of colloid and interface science · 2025Article
- Distinct Contributions of Particle Adsorption and Interfacial Compression to the Surface Pressure of a Fluid Interface.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2024Article
- Giant Decrease in Interfacial Energy of Liquid Metals by Native Oxides.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2024Article
- Rotational dynamics of a disk in a thin film of weakly nematic fluid subject to linear friction.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2024Article
- Air invasion into three-dimensional foam induces viscous fingering instabilities.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Curvature and shape relaxation in surface-viscous domains.Physical review fluids · 2023Article
- Effects of microplastics and surfactants on surface roughness of water waves.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Oil-on-water droplets faceted and stabilized by vortex halos in the subphase.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- A single parameter can predict surfactant impairment of superhydrophobic drag reduction.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Evaporation-driven liquid flow in sessile droplets.Soft matter · 2022Review
- Evaporation of a Sessile Colloidal Water-Glycerol Droplet: Marangoni Ring Formation.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2022Article
- Microtensiometer for Confocal Microscopy Visualization of Dynamic Interfaces.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2022Article
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Abstract
Surfactants - molecules and particles that preferentially adsorb to fluid interfaces - play a ubiquitous role in the fluids of industry, of nature, and of life. Since most surfactants cannot be seen directly, their behavior must be inferred from their impact on observed flows, like the buoyant rise of a bubble, or the thickness of a coating film. In so doing, however, a difficulty arises: physically distinct surfactant processes can affect measurable flows in qualitatively identical ways, raising the specter of confusion or even misinterpretation. This Perspective describes, in one coherent piece, both the equilibrium properties and dynamic processes of surfactants, to better enable the fluid mechanics community to understand, interpret, and design surfactant/fluid systems. Specifically, §2 treats the equilibrium thermodynamics of surfactants at interfaces, including surface pressure, isotherms of soluble and insoluble surfactants, and surface dilatational moduli (Gibbs and Marangoni). §3 describes surfactant dynamics in fluid systems, including surfactant transport and interfacial stress boundary conditions, the competition between surface diffusion, advection, and adsorption/desorption, Marangoni stresses and flows, and surface excess rheology. §4 discusses paradigmatic problems from fluid mechanics that are impacted by surfactants, including translating drops and bubbles, surfactant adsorption to clean and oscillating interfaces; capillary wave damping, thin film dynamics, foam drainage, and the dynamics of particles and probes at surfactant-laden interfaces. Finally, §5 discusses the additional richness and complexity that frequently arise in 'real' surfactants, including phase transitions, phase coexistence, and polycrystalline phases within surfactant monolayers, and their impact on non-Newtonian surface rheology.
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