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ArticleMicromachines2023

Behaviour of Acoustically Levitated Drops in Mid-Water.

Jan-Paul Ruiken, Jörn Villwock, Matthias Kraume

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Article in Micromachines, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jan-Paul RuikenDepartment of Chemical and Process Engineering, Technische Universität Berlin, Ackerstraße 76, 13355 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0009-0003-4508-2054
Jörn VillwockDepartment of Chemical and Process Engineering, Technische Universität Berlin, Ackerstraße 76, 13355 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2958-0817
Matthias KraumeDepartment of Chemical and Process Engineering, Technische Universität Berlin, Ackerstraße 76, 13355 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3116-7220
Technische Universität Berlin · DE

Funding

DECHEMA-Forschungsinstitut Max Buchner Research Scholarship (no. 3766)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A low-impact acoustic levitation system has been developed to study immobilised single drops in liquid-liquid systems. The ability to observe liquid drops several millimetres in diameter for days enables fundamental research into a wide range of mechanisms. Non-invasive optical measurements with excellent optical accessibility are possible. This experimental work provides the basis for mass transfer studies, emphasizing the precise volume determination, signal noise, reproducibility, and the impact of the acoustic field on the drop and its surrounding environment. The setup can be effectively controlled and proves beneficial for research objectives provided that all liquid phases are entirely degassed, and there are no compressible voids present within the liquids. In addition to the precise, uniform, and reliable measurement conditions, we observed no acoustic streaming in the proximity of the drop and there was no significant vibration of the drop. Qualitative observations using rainbow schlieren deflectometry indicate that the nodal or anti-nodal planes of the standing waves can act as barriers to the dispersion of inhomogeneous dissolved substances in the continuous phase.

Indexed as

acoustic levitationacoustic streamingliquid–liquid systemsmass transfersingle drop

Identifiers

PMID37893360
PMCPMC10609316
OpenAlexW4387494712

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