A GROWING DROP TECHNIQUE FOR MEASURING DYNAMIC INTERFACIAL-TENSION
A GROWING DROP TECHNIQUE FOR MEASURING DYNAMIC INTERFACIAL-TENSION
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DOI:
10.1006/jcis.1993.1415
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发表时间:
1993-10-15
影响因子:
9.9
通讯作者:
RADKE, CJ
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作者:
MACLEOD, CA;RADKE, CJ
A novel, growing drop technique is described for measuring dynamic interfacial tension due to sorption of surface-active solutes. The proposed method relates the instantaneous pressure and size of expanding liquid drops to the interfacial tension and is useful for measuring both liquid/gas and liquid/liquid tensions over a wide range of time scales, currently from 10 ms to several hours. Growing drop measurements on surfactant-free water/ air and water/octanol interfaces yield constant tensions equal to their known literature values. For surfactant-laden, liquid drops, the growing drop technique captures the actual transient tension evolution of a single interface, rather than interval times as with the classic maximum-drop-pressure and drop-volume tension measurements. Dynamic tensions measured for 0.25 mMaqueous 1-decanol solution/air and 0.02 kg/m3aqueous Triton X-100 solution/dodecane interfaces show nonmonotonic behavior, indicating slow surfactant transport relative to the imposed rates of interfacial dilatation. The dynamic tension of a purified and fresh 6 mMaqueous sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) solution/air interface shows only a monotonic decrease, indicating rapid surfactant transport relative to the imposed rates of dilatation. Conversely, an aged SDS solution, naturally containing trace dodecanol impurities, exhibits dynamic tensions which reflect a superposition of the rapidly equilibrating SDS and the slowly adsorbing dodecanol.