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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on recent experimental and theoretical studies, which aim at unraveling the underlying physics, characterized by the delicate interplay of liquid inertia, viscosity, and surface tension, but also the surrounding gas.
Abstract: A drop hitting a solid surface can deposit, bounce, or splash. Splashing arises from the breakup of a fine liquid sheet that is ejected radially along the substrate. Bouncing and deposition depend crucially on the wetting properties of the substrate. In this review, we focus on recent experimental and theoretical studies, which aim at unraveling the underlying physics, characterized by the delicate interplay of not only liquid inertia, viscosity, and surface tension, but also the surrounding gas. The gas cushions the initial contact; it is entrapped in a central microbubble on the substrate; and it promotes the so-called corona splash, by lifting the lamella away from the solid. Particular attention is paid to the influence of surface roughness, natural or engineered to enhance repellency, relevant in many applications.

994 citations


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Jongho Lee1, Chanhee Boo1, Won-Hee Ryu1, André D. Taylor1, Menachem Elimelech1 
TL;DR: This study presents a facile and scalable approach to fabricate omniphobic nanofiber membranes by constructing multilevel re-entrant structures with low surface energy, and demonstrates clean water production from the low surface tension feedwater.
Abstract: In this study, we present a facile and scalable approach to fabricate omniphobic nanofiber membranes by constructing multilevel re-entrant structures with low surface energy. We first prepared positively charged nanofiber mats by electrospinning a blend polymer-surfactant solution of poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) (PVDF-HFP) and cationic surfactant (benzyltriethylammonium). Negatively charged silica nanoparticles (SiNPs) were grafted on the positively charged electrospun nanofibers via dip-coating to achieve multilevel re-entrant structures. Grafted SiNPs were then coated with fluoroalkylsilane to lower the surface energy of the membrane. The fabricated membrane showed excellent omniphobicity, as demonstrated by its wetting resistance to various low surface tension liquids, including ethanol with a surface tension of 22.1 mN/m. As a promising application, the prepared omniphobic membrane was tested in direct contact membrane distillation to extract water from highly saline feed solutions containing low surface tension substances, mimicking emerging industrial wastewaters (e.g., from shale gas production). While a control hydrophobic PVDF-HFP nanofiber membrane failed in the desalination/separation process due to low wetting resistance, our fabricated omniphobic membrane exhibited a stable desalination performance for 8 h of operation, successfully demonstrating clean water production from the low surface tension feedwater.

214 citations


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TL;DR: The engineered membranes exhibited stable MD performance with low surface tension feed waters, demonstrating the potential application omniphobic membranes in desalinating complex, high salinity industrial wastewaters.
Abstract: We investigated the factors that determine surface omniphobicity of microporous membranes and evaluated the potential application of these membranes in desalination of low surface tension wastewaters by membrane distillation (MD). Specifically, the effects of surface morphology and surface energy on membrane surface omniphobicity were systematically investigated by evaluating wetting resistance to low surface tension liquids. Single and multilevel re-entrant structures were achieved by using cylindrical glass fibers as a membrane substrate and grafting silica nanoparticles (SiNPs) on the fibers. Surface energy of the membrane was tuned by functionalizing the fiber substrate with fluoroalkylsilane (FAS) having two different lengths of fluoroalkyl chains. Results show that surface omniphobicity of the modified fibrous membrane increased with higher level of re-entrant structure and with lower surface energy. The secondary re-entrant structure achieved by SiNP coating on the cylindrical fibers was found to play a critical role in enhancing the surface omniphobicity. Membranes coated with SiNPs and chemically modified by the FAS with a longer fluoroalkyl chain (or lower surface energy) exhibited excellent surface omniphobicity and showed wetting resistance to low surface tension liquids such as ethanol (22.1 mN m(-1)). We further evaluated performance of the membranes in desalination of saline feed solutions with varying surface tensions by membrane distillation (MD). The engineered membranes exhibited stable MD performance with low surface tension feed waters, demonstrating the potential application omniphobic membranes in desalinating complex, high salinity industrial wastewaters.

192 citations


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TL;DR: It is concluded that for a given storage depth, reservoirs with lower pressures and high temperatures can store larger volumes and thus exhibit better sealing efficiency.

170 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, three novel cationic gemini surfactants were synthesized and their effect on the corrosion of carbon steel in 15% HCl solution was investigated using weight loss, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, potentiodynamic polarization, surface analysis (SEM and EDX) and quantum chemical methods.

165 citations


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TL;DR: A multiscale investigation of the bulk and surface of aqueous electrolyte solutions that extends from the atomic scale to nanoscopic length scales (using bulk and interfacial femtosecond second harmonic measurements) to the macroscopic scale (using surface tension experiments).
Abstract: Electrolytes interact with water in many ways: changing dipole orientation, inducing charge transfer, and distorting the hydrogen-bond network in the bulk and at interfaces. Numerous experiments and computations have detected short-range perturbations that extend up to three hydration shells around individual ions. We report a multiscale investigation of the bulk and surface of aqueous electrolyte solutions that extends from the atomic scale (using atomistic modeling) to nanoscopic length scales (using bulk and interfacial femtosecond second harmonic measurements) to the macroscopic scale (using surface tension experiments). Electrolytes induce orientational order at concentrations starting at 10 μM that causes nonspecific changes in the surface tension of dilute electrolyte solutions. Aside from ion-dipole interactions, collective hydrogen-bond interactions are crucial and explain the observed difference of a factor of 6 between light water and heavy water.

158 citations


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TL;DR: This review presents the state of the art in molecular simulations of interfacial systems and of the calculation of the surface tension from the underlying intermolecular potential and considers the challenging problems of reproducing the interfacial tension of salt solutions as a function of the salt molality.
Abstract: This review presents the state of the art in molecular simulations of interfacial systems and of the calculation of the surface tension from the underlying intermolecular potential. We provide a short account of different methodological factors (size-effects, truncation procedures, long-range corrections and potential models) that can affect the results of the simulations. Accurate calculations are presented for the calculation of the surface tension as a function of the temperature, pressure and composition by considering the planar gas-liquid interface of a range of molecular fluids. In particular, we consider the challenging problems of reproducing the interfacial tension of salt solutions as a function of the salt molality; the simulations of spherical interfaces including the calculation of the sign and size of the Tolman length for a spherical droplet; the use of coarse-grained models in the calculation of the interfacial tension of liquid-liquid surfaces and the mesoscopic simulations of oil-water-surfactant interfacial systems.

155 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, a transient three-dimensional powder-scale model has been established for investigating the thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer and surface quality within the molten pool during selective laser melting (SLM) Inconel 718 alloy by finite volume method, considering the powder-solid transition, variation of thermo-physical properties, and surface tension.
Abstract: A transient three-dimensional powder-scale model has been established for investigating the thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer and surface quality within the molten pool during selective laser melting (SLM) Inconel 718 alloy by finite volume method (FVM), considering the powder-solid transition, variation of thermo-physical properties, and surface tension. The influences of hatch spacing (H) on the thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, and resultant surface quality of molten pool have been discussed in detail. The results revealed that the H had a significant influence on determining the terminally solidified surface quality of the SLM-processed components. As a relatively lower H of 40 μm was used, a considerable amount of molten liquid migrated towards the previous as-fabricated tracks with a higher velocity, resulting in a stacking of molten liquid and the attendant formation of a poor surface quality with a large average surface roughness of 12.72 μm. As an appropriate H of 60 μm was settled, a reasonable temperature gradient and the resultant surface tension tended to spread the molten liquid with a steady velocity, favoring the formation of a flat surface of the component and an attendant low average surface roughness of 2.23 μm. Both the surface morphologies and average surface roughness were experimentally obtained, which were in a full accordance with the results calculated by simulation.

147 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the effect of volume concentration (0.05, 0.1 and 0.15%) and temperature on viscosity and surface tension of graphene-water nanofluid has been experimentally measured.
Abstract: In the present study, the effect of volume concentration (0.05, 0.1 and 0.15 %) and temperature (10–90 °C) on viscosity and surface tension of graphene–water nanofluid has been experimentally measured. The sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate is used as the surfactant for stable suspension of graphene. The results showed that the viscosity of graphene–water nanofluid increases with an increase in the volume concentration of nanoparticles and decreases with an increase in temperature. An average enhancement of 47.12 % in viscosity has been noted for 0.15 % volume concentration of graphene at 50 °C. The enhancement of the viscosity of the nanofluid at higher volume concentration is due to the higher shear rate. In contrast, the surface tension of the graphene–water nanofluid decreases with an increase in both volume concentration and temperature. A decrement of 18.7 % in surface tension has been noted for the same volume concentration and temperature. The surface tension reduction in nanofluid at higher volume concentrations is due to the adsorption of nanoparticles at the liquid–gas interface because of hydrophobic nature of graphene; and at higher temperatures, is due to the weakening of molecular attractions between fluid molecules and nanoparticles. The viscosity and surface tension showed stronger dependency on volume concentration than temperature. Based on the calculated effectiveness of graphene–water nanofluids, it is suggested that the graphene–water nanofluid is preferable as the better coolant for the real-time heat transfer applications.

146 citations


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25 Jan 2016-Langmuir
TL;DR: The dynamic contact angle at maximum spreading is found to be generally higher than the equilibrium contact angle, showing that statically wetting surfaces can become less wetting or even nonwetting under dynamic droplet impact.
Abstract: Droplet impact has been imaged on different rigid, smooth, and rough substrates for three liquids with different viscosity and surface tension, with special attention to the lower impact velocity range. Of all studied parameters, only surface tension and viscosity, thus the liquid properties, clearly play a role in terms of the attained maximum spreading ratio of the impacting droplet. Surface roughness and type of surface (steel, aluminum, and parafilm) slightly affect the dynamic wettability and maximum spreading at low impact velocity. The dynamic contact angle at maximum spreading has been identified to properly characterize this dynamic spreading process, especially at low impact velocity where dynamic wetting plays an important role. The dynamic contact angle is found to be generally higher than the equilibrium contact angle, showing that statically wetting surfaces can become less wetting or even nonwetting under dynamic droplet impact. An improved energy balance model for maximum spreading ratio i...

123 citations


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TL;DR: The adsorbed NPs at the interface are shown to slow down Ostwald ripening and increase foam stability, and the increase in the bulk and surface viscosity of the aqueous phase further decreases the lamella drainage rate and inhibits coalescence of foams.

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TL;DR: Liquid metals in an alkaline electrolyte, when placed on a graphite surface, are able to be manipulated into desired flat, stable shapes with sharp angles, like triangles.
Abstract: Liquid metals (LMs) in an alkaline electrolyte, when placed on a graphite surface, are able to be manipulated into desired flat, stable shapes with sharp angles, like triangles. Unique transformations and worm-like anti-gravity upslope LM locomotion under a low-voltage electric field are also revealed.

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01 May 2016-Small
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the incorporation of cosolvents-exfoliated 2D materials can substantially improve the mechanical and thermal properties of polymer matrices.
Abstract: A proper design of direct liquid phase exfoliation (LPE) for 2D materials as graphene, MoS2 , WS2 , h-BN, Bi2 Se3 , MoSe2 , SnS2 , and TaS2 with common cosolvents is carried out based on considering the polar and dispersive components of surface tensions of various cosolvents and 2D materials. It has been found that the exfoliation efficiency is enhanced by matching the ratio of surface tension components of cosolvents to that of the targeted 2D materials, based on which common cosolvents composed of IPA/water, THF/water, and acetone/water can be designed for sufficient LPE process. In this context, the library of low-toxic and low-cost solvents with low boiling points for LPE is infinitely enlarged when extending to common cosolvents. Polymer-based composites reinforced with a series of different 2D materials are compared with each other. It is demonstrated that the incorporation of cosolvents-exfoliated 2D materials can substantially improve the mechanical and thermal properties of polymer matrices. Typically, with the addition of 0.5 wt% of such 2D material as MoS2 nanosheets, the tensile strength and Young's modulus increased up to 74.85% and 136.97%, respectively. The different enhancement effect of 2D materials is corresponded to the intrinsic properties and LPE capacity of 2D materials.

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TL;DR: Using molecular dynamics simulations, a new approach based on the behavior of pressurized water out of a nanopore in a flat plate is developed to calculate the relationship between the water surface curvature and the pressure difference across water surface, and it is found that this relationship will be effective for different pore size, temperature, and even for electrolyte solutions.
Abstract: Using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, a new approach based on the behavior of pressurized water out of a nanopore (1.3-2.7 nm) in a flat plate is developed to calculate the relationship between the water surface curvature and the pressure difference across water surface. It is found that the water surface curvature is inversely proportional to the pressure difference across surface at nanoscale, and this relationship will be effective for different pore size, temperature, and even for electrolyte solutions. Based on the present results, we cannot only effectively determine the surface tension of water and the effects of temperature or electrolyte ions on the surface tension, but also show that the Young-Laplace (Y-L) equation is valid at nanoscale. In addition, the contact angle of water with the hydrophilic material can be further calculated by the relationship between the critical instable pressure of water surface (burst pressure) and nanopore size. Combining with the infiltration behavior of water into hydrophobic microchannels, the contact angle of water at nanoscale can be more accurately determined by measuring the critical pressure causing the instability of water surface, based on which the uncertainty of measuring the contact angle of water at nanoscale is highly reduced.

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TL;DR: Comparison of the observed bubble dynamics to the predictions of the macroscopic Rayleigh–Plesset (RP) equation, augmented with thermal fluctuations, demonstrates that the growth of nanoscale bubbles is governed by viscous forces.
Abstract: Despite its relevance in biology and engineering, the molecular mechanism driving cavitation in water remains unknown. Using computer simulations, we investigate the structure and dynamics of vapor bubbles emerging from metastable water at negative pressures. We find that in the early stages of cavitation, bubbles are irregularly shaped and become more spherical as they grow. Nevertheless, the free energy of bubble formation can be perfectly reproduced in the framework of classical nucleation theory (CNT) if the curvature dependence of the surface tension is taken into account. Comparison of the observed bubble dynamics to the predictions of the macroscopic Rayleigh-Plesset (RP) equation, augmented with thermal fluctuations, demonstrates that the growth of nanoscale bubbles is governed by viscous forces. Combining the dynamical prefactor determined from the RP equation with CNT based on the Kramers formalism yields an analytical expression for the cavitation rate that reproduces the simulation results very well over a wide range of pressures. Furthermore, our theoretical predictions are in excellent agreement with cavitation rates obtained from inclusion experiments. This suggests that homogeneous nucleation is observed in inclusions, whereas only heterogeneous nucleation on impurities or defects occurs in other experiments.

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TL;DR: This work optimized potential parameters in a molecular dynamics model to reproduce the experimental contact angle of a macroscopic mercury droplet on graphite and proposed a technique to correct the common interpretation procedure of mercury intrusion capillary pressure measurement for nanoporous material such as shale.
Abstract: We optimized potential parameters in a molecular dynamics model to reproduce the experimental contact angle of a macroscopic mercury droplet on graphite. With the tuned potential, we studied the effects of pore size, geometry, and temperature on the wetting of mercury droplets confined in organic-rich shale nanopores. The contact angle of mercury in a circular pore increases exponentially as pore size decreases. In conjunction with the curvature-dependent surface tension of liquid droplets predicted from a theoretical model, we proposed a technique to correct the common interpretation procedure of mercury intrusion capillary pressure (MICP) measurement for nanoporous material such as shale. Considering the variation of contact angle and surface tension with pore size improves the agreement between MICP and adsorption-derived pore size distribution, especially for pores having a radius smaller than 5 nm. The relative error produced in ignoring these effects could be as high as 44%--samples that contain smaller pores deviate more. We also explored the impacts of pore size and temperature on the surface tension and contact angle of water/vapor and oil/gas systems, by which the capillary pressure of water/oil/gas in shale can be obtained from MICP. This information is fundamental to understanding multiphase flow behavior in shale systems.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived the (2 + 1) -dimensions form of the Davey-Stewartson (DS) system for the modulation of 2-D harmonic waves.
Abstract: The three-dimensional (3-D) nonlinear and dispersive PDEs system for surface waves propagating at undisturbed water surface under the gravity force and surface tension effects are studied. By applying the reductive perturbation method, we derive the (2 + 1) -dimensions form of the Davey-Stewartson (DS) system for the modulation of 2-D harmonic waves. By using the simplest equation method, we find exact traveling wave solutions and a general form of the multiple-soliton solution of the DS model. The dispersion analysis as well as the conservation law of the DS system are discussed. It is revealed that the consistency of the results with the conservation of the potential energy increases with increasing Ursell parameter. Also, the stability of the ODEs form of the DS system is presented by using the phase portrait method.

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TL;DR: Nikolayev et al. as mentioned in this paper presented an experimental and theoretical description of the kinetics of coalescence of two sessile water drops on a plane solid surface, where the drops are in an atmosphere of nitrogen saturated with water where they grow by condensation and eventually touch each other and coalesce.
Abstract: We present an experimental and theoretical description of the kinetics of coalescence of two water drops on a plane solid surface The case of partial wetting is considered The drops are in an atmosphere of nitrogen saturated with water where they grow by condensation and eventually touch each other and coalesce A new convex composite drop is rapidly formed that then exponentially and slowly relaxes to an equilibrium hemispherical cap The characteristic relaxation time is proportional to the drop radius R * at final equilibrium This relaxation time appears to be nearly 10 7 times larger than the bulk capillary relaxation time t b = R * $\eta$/$\sigma$, where $\sigma$ is the gas--liquid surface tension and $\eta$ is the liquid shear viscosity In order to explain this extremely large relaxation time, we consider a model that involves an Arrhenius kinetic factor resulting from a liquid--vapour phase change in the vicinity of the contact line The model results in a large relaxation time of order t b exp(L/RT) where L is the molar latent heat of vaporization, R is the gas constant and T is the temperature We model the late time relaxation for a near spherical cap and find an exponential relaxation whose typical time scale agrees reasonably well with the experiment 1 Introduction Fusion or coalescence between drops is a key process in a wide range of phenomena: phase transition in fluids and liquid mixtures or polymers, stability of foams and emulsions, and sintering in metallurgy (Eggers 1998), which is why the problem of coalescence has already received considerable attention Most of the studies of this process so far have been devoted to the coalescence of two spherical drops floating in a medium The kinetics of the process before and after the drops have touched each other is governed by the hydrodynamics inside and outside the drops and by the van der Waals forces when the drops are within mesoscopic distance from each other (Yiantsios \& Davis 1991) The composite drop that results from the coalescence of two drops relaxes to a spherical shape within a time which is dominated by the relaxation of the flow inside and outside (Nikolayev, Beysens \& Guenoun 1996; Nikolayev \& Beysens 1997) There are no studies, to our knowledge, of the coalescence of two sessile drops after they touch each other In this paper, we report a preliminary study of the dynamics and morphology of this process, in the case of hemispherical water droplets which grow slowly on a plane surface at the expense of the surrounding atmosphere, forming what is called 'dew' or 'breath figures' (Beysens et al 1991; Beysens 1995) The drops eventually touch each other and coalesce to form an elongated composite

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TL;DR: Investigation of the effect of asphaltene concentrations on the interfacial tension (IFT) of the oil/water interface revealed that surface concentration, rather than the commonly used bulk concentration, determines the reduction of oil/ water IFTs.
Abstract: In this work, pendant drop techniques and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were employed to investigate the effect of asphaltene concentrations on the interfacial tension (IFT) of the oil/water interface. Here, oil and asphaltene were represented by, respectively, common organic solvents and Violanthrone-79, and two types of concentration, i.e., bulk concentration and surface concentration, were examined. Correlations between the IFTs from experiments and MD simulations revealed that surface concentration, rather than the commonly used bulk concentration, determines the reduction of oil/water IFTs. Through analyzing the hydrogen bonding, the underlying mechanism for the IFT reduction was proposed. Our discussions here not only enable the direct comparison between experiments and MD simulations on the IFTs but also help with future interfacial studies using combined experimental and simulation approaches. The methodologies used in this work can be extended to many other oil/water interfaces in the prese...

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the concept of surface energy to explain dependency of wettability on pressure, temperature and salinity, and found that for all minerals solid/CO2 interfacial energy decreased with pressure and increased with temperature.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate oil/water emulsions through interfacial tension using two common non-ionic surfactants, Tween 80 and Span 20, in the concentration range C (0.3 − 1 wt%) well above their respective CMCs.
Abstract: Stable oil/water emulsions are usually obtained by using mixtures of different surfactants. Such systems display synergistic interface stabilizing effects, which have not been fully elucidated yet. Moreover, in many applications surfactants are added at concentrations well above their critical micellar concentration (CMC), and this regime has not been thoroughly explored in the literature as well. Here, we investigate oil/water emulsions through oil/water interfacial tension using two common non-ionic surfactants, Tween 80 and Span 20, in the concentration range C (0.3–1 wt%) well above their respective CMCs. Mesoscale molecular simulations coupled interfacial tensiometry experiments to characterise these interfaces at a molecular level. Interfacial tension γ was measured by a pendant drop technique. Coarse-grained calculations provided a microscopic view of the interface at the molecular level (i.e. surfactant arrangement, interface thickness), and were employed to extend the study to those surfactant concentrations where experiments could hardly provide reliable data, if any. We found a significant synergistic effect between Tween 80 and Span 20, with low molecular weight Span molecules occupying free spaces between the much larger, bulky Tween compounds. The surfactant intermolecular interactions could be associated to a striking decrease of interfacial tension in going from pure surfactants to a mixture at the same total weight concentration. Furthermore, the interface was found to exhibit a spatial inhomogeneity with a “patch-like” organisation, reminiscent of microphase separation. Our results show that the proposed, combined experimental/in silico approach provides relevant insights for several industrial applications, such as emulsion stability and oil spill remediation.

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TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive characterization of viscosity, thermal conductivity, surface tension and pH of TiO 2 -water nanofluid is carried out to investigate the effects of both temperature and solid volume fraction on these thermo-physical properties.

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TL;DR: In this article, the effect of the physical properties (viscosity, surface tension) of vegetable oils on the cooling effect was analyzed comprehensively, and a new ploughing force model and a friction force model were established.

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09 May 2016-ACS Nano
TL;DR: A series of porous block copolymer particles with controllable morphology and pore sizes was fabricated by tuning the interfacial behavior of BCP droplets in oil-in-water emulsions to create particles with open-porosity that could be used as pH-responsive, high capacity delivery systems where the uptake and release of multiple dyes could be achieved.
Abstract: A series of porous block copolymer (BCP) particles with controllable morphology and pore sizes was fabricated by tuning the interfacial behavior of BCP droplets in oil-in-water emulsions. A synergistic adsorption of polystyrene-b-poly(4-vinylpyridine) (PS-b-P4VP) BCPs and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) to the surface of the emulsion droplet induced a dramatic decrease in the interfacial tension and generated interfacial instability at the particle surface. In particular, the SDS concentration and the P4VP volume fraction of PS-b-P4VP were key parameters in determining the degree of interfacial instability, leading to different types of particles including micelles, capsules, closed-porosity particles, and open-porosity particles with tunable pore sizes ranging from 10 to 500 nm. The particles with open-porosity could be used as pH-responsive, high capacity delivery systems where the uptake and release of multiple dyes could be achieved.

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25 Jan 2016-Langmuir
TL;DR: It is found that the use of the experimental dynamic contact angle at maximum spreading in the Kistler model, which is used as a boundary condition for the CFD-VOF calculation, gives good agreement between experimental and numerical results.
Abstract: The maximum spreading of an impinging droplet on a rigid surface is studied for low to high impact velocity, until the droplet starts splashing. We investigate experimentally and numerically the role of liquid properties, such as surface tension and viscosity, on drop impact using three liquids. It is found that the use of the experimental dynamic contact angle at maximum spreading in the Kistler model, which is used as a boundary condition for the CFD-VOF calculation, gives good agreement between experimental and numerical results. Analytical models commonly used to predict the boundary layer thickness and time at maximum spreading are found to be less correct, meaning that energy balance models relying on these relations have to be considered with care. The time of maximum spreading is found to depend on both the impact velocity and surface tension, and neither dependency is predicted correctly in common analytical models. The relative proportion of the viscous dissipation in the total energy budget increases with impact velocity with respect to surface energy. At high impact velocity, the contribution of surface energy, even before splashing, is still substantial, meaning that both surface energy and viscous dissipation have to be taken into account, and scaling laws depending only on viscous dissipation do not apply. At low impact velocity, viscous dissipation seems to play an important role in low-surface-tension liquids such as ethanol.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors derived the turbulence kinetic energy (TKE) equations for the two-fluid, carrierfluid and dropletfluid flow, and showed that droplets enhance the dissipation rate of TKE by enhancing the local velocity gradients near the droplet interface.
Abstract: Droplets in turbulent flows behave differently from solid particles, e.g. droplets deform, break up, coalesce and have internal fluid circulation. Our objective is to gain a fundamental understanding of the physical mechanisms of droplet–turbulence interaction. We performed direct numerical simulations (DNS) of 3130 finite-size, non-evaporating droplets of diameter approximately equal to the Taylor length scale and with 5 % droplet volume fraction in decaying isotropic turbulence at initial Taylor-scale Reynolds number . In the droplet-laden cases, we varied one of the following three parameters: the droplet Weber number based on the r.m.s. velocity of turbulence ( ), the droplet- to carrier-fluid density ratio ( ) or the droplet- to carrier-fluid viscosity ratio ( ). In this work, we derive the turbulence kinetic energy (TKE) equations for the two-fluid, carrier-fluid and droplet-fluid flow. These equations allow us to explain the pathways for TKE exchange between the carrier turbulent flow and the flow inside the droplet. We also explain the role of the interfacial surface energy in the two-fluid TKE equation through the power of the surface tension. Furthermore, we derive the relationship between the power of surface tension and the rate of change of total droplet surface area. This link allows us to explain how droplet deformation, breakup and coalescence play roles in the temporal evolution of TKE. Our DNS results show that increasing , and increases the decay rate of the two-fluid TKE. The droplets enhance the dissipation rate of TKE by enhancing the local velocity gradients near the droplet interface. The power of the surface tension is a source or sink of the two-fluid TKE depending on the sign of the rate of change of the total droplet surface area. Thus, we show that, through the power of the surface tension, droplet coalescence is a source of TKE and breakup is a sink of TKE. For short times, the power of the surface tension is less than of the dissipation rate. For later times, the power of the surface tension is always a source of TKE, and its magnitude can be up to 50 % of the dissipation rate.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of temperature on foam stability in a sandstone porous medium with co-injection of foam was investigated and it was shown that foam deforms faster at high temperature, as a response to the reduction in liquid viscosity and greater film permeability leading to faster coarsening.

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20 Apr 2016-Langmuir
TL;DR: Equilibrium simulations of surface nanobubbles at different gas oversaturation levels ζ > 0 reveal how pinning of the three-phase contact line on the surface can lead to the stability of the surface Nanobubble, provided that the concentration of the dissolved gas is oversaturated.
Abstract: The stability and growth or dissolution of a single surface nanobubble on a chemically patterned surface are studied by molecular dynamics simulations of binary mixtures consisting of Lennard-Jones (LJ) particles. Our simulations reveal how pinning of the three-phase contact line on the surface can lead to the stability of the surface nanobubble, provided that the concentration of the dissolved gas is oversaturated. We have performed equilibrium simulations of surface nanobubbles at different gas oversaturation levels ζ > 0. The equilibrium contact angle θe is found to follow the theoretical result of Lohse and Zhang (Phys. Rev. E 2015, 91, 031003(R)), namely, sin θe = ζL/Lc, where L is the pinned length of the footprint and Lc = 4γ/P0 is a capillary length scale, where γ is the surface tension and P0 is the ambient pressure. For undersaturation ζ < 0 the surface nanobubble dissolves and the dissolution dynamics shows a “stick-jump” behavior of the three-phase contact line.

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01 Apr 2016-Langmuir
TL;DR: This study presents the results of an integrated series of large-scale molecular dynamics simulations performed to investigate the effects of wall-fluid interactions on the threshold capillary pressures of oil-water/brine displacements in a calcite nanopore with a square cross section.
Abstract: Unconventional reservoirs such as hydrocarbon-bearing shale formations and ultratight carbonates generate a large fraction of oil and gas production in North America. The characteristic feature of these reservoirs is their nanoscale porosity that provides significant surface areas between the pore walls and the occupying fluids. To better assess hydrocarbon recovery from these formations, it is crucial to develop an improved insight into the effects of wall-fluid interactions on the interfacial phenomena in these nanoscale confinements. One of the important properties that controls the displacement of fluids inside the pores is the threshold capillary pressure. In this study, we present the results of an integrated series of large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations performed to investigate the effects of wall-fluid interactions on the threshold capillary pressures of oil-water/brine displacements in a calcite nanopore with a square cross section. Fully atomistic models are utilized to represent crude oil, brine, and calcite in order to accommodate electrostatic interactions and H-bonding between the polar molecules and the calcite surface. To this end, we create mixtures of various polar and nonpolar organic molecules to better represent the crude oil. The interfacial tension between oil and water/brine and their contact angle on calcite surface are simulated. We study the effects of oil composition, water salinity, and temperature and pressure conditions on these properties. The threshold capillary pressure values are also obtained from the MD simulations for the calcite nanopore. We then compare the MD results against those generated using the Mayer-Stowe-Princen (MSP) method and explain the differences.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the properties of xanthan gum (XG) aqueous solutions were investigated by using viscometric, electrokinetic and surface tension measurements, and the effects of polymer concentration, temperature and pH on the viscosity of the XG solutions were evaluated and discussed.
Abstract: The properties of xanthan gum (XG) aqueous solutions were investigated by using viscometric, electrokinetic and surface tension measurements. The effects of polymer concentration, temperature and pH on the viscosity of the XG solutions were evaluated and discussed. Zeta potential data determined for XG solutions in water in the temperature range of 15–45 °C corroborated with the results obtained from the viscometric investigations suggest the occurence of conformational changes above 36 °C. The activation energy of flow and that associated with the electrophoretic migration of the charged particles were estimated for XG solutions in water. In acid medium, xanthan gum determines a slight decrease of the surface tension of pure water at all investigated temperatures.