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Colloids and Interfaces, Volume 3, Issue 4

December 2019 - 9 articles

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Articles (9)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,798 Views
11 Pages

Cooperative Effects in Surfactant Adsorption Layers at Water/Alkane Interfaces

  • Valentin B. Fainerman,
  • Altynay A. Sharipova,
  • Eugene V. Aksenenko,
  • Alexander V. Makievski,
  • Mykola V. Nikolenko,
  • Aliyar Javadi,
  • Saule B. Aidarova and
  • Reinhard Miller

In the present work, the properties of dodecyl dimethyl phosphine oxide (C12DMPO) at the water/decane interface are studied and compared with those obtained earlier at the interface to hexane. To simulate the interfacial behavior, a two-component the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,805 Views
17 Pages

The interest to monophasic liquid capillary bridges (CB) has a long history. These shapes are attractive not only because of their interesting surface properties but also because of the possibility of their behavior to be analytically predicted by th...

  • Feature Paper
  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,611 Views
13 Pages

Interfacial Dilational Viscoelasticity of Adsorption Layers at the Hydrocarbon/Water Interface: The Fractional Maxwell Model

  • Giuseppe Loglio,
  • Volodymyr I. Kovalchuk,
  • Alexey G. Bykov,
  • Michele Ferrari,
  • Jürgen Krägel,
  • Libero Liggieri,
  • Reinhard Miller,
  • Boris A. Noskov,
  • Piero Pandolfini and
  • Francesca Ravera
  • + 1 author

In this communication, the single element version of the fractional Maxwell model (single-FMM or Scott–Blair model) is adopted to quantify the observed behavior of the linear interfacial dilational viscoelasticity. This mathematical tool is app...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,679 Views
20 Pages

Comparison of Bubble Size Distributions Inferred from Acoustic, Optical Visualisation, and Laser Diffraction

  • Pratik D Desai,
  • Woon Choon Ng,
  • Michael J Hines,
  • Yassir Riaz,
  • Vaclav Tesar and
  • William B Zimmerman

Bubble measurement has been widely discussed in the literature and comparison studies have been widely performed to validate the results obtained for various forms of bubble size inferences. This paper explores three methods used to obtain a bubble s...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,972 Views
13 Pages

Oil-In-Water Microemulsions for Thymol Solubilization

  • Laura Fernández-Peña,
  • Sonia Gutiérrez-Muro,
  • Eduardo Guzmán,
  • Alejandro Lucia,
  • Francisco Ortega and
  • Ramón G. Rubio

Essential oil compounds (EOCs) are molecules with well-known antimicrobial and antipest activity. However, such molecules possess limited solubility in water, making their handling difficult. This work aimed to enhance the distribution of a solid ess...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,824 Views
14 Pages

The heterogeneous interactions of colloidal U particles with organophosphates, leading to the formation of U-phosphate minerals, can retard the migration of U in contaminated sites. Here, we studied the hydrolytic mechanism of p-nitrophenyl phosphate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
92 Citations
10,701 Views
19 Pages

Mechanisms of Surface Charge Modification of Carbonates in Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions

  • Maryam H. Derkani,
  • Ashleigh J. Fletcher,
  • Maxim Fedorov,
  • Wael Abdallah,
  • Bastian Sauerer,
  • James Anderson and
  • Zhenyu J. Zhang

The influence of different types of salts (NaCl, CaCl 2 , MgCl 2 , NaHCO 3 , and Na 2 SO 4 ) on the surface characteristics of unconditioned calcite and dolomite particles, and conditioned with stearic acid, was inv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,719 Views
18 Pages

Fabrication of Mesoporous NaZrP Cation-Exchanger for U(VI) Ions Separation from Uranyl Leach Liquors

  • Islam G. Alhindawy,
  • Emad A. Elshehy,
  • Mohamed E. El-Khouly,
  • Yasser K. Abdel-Monem and
  • Mohamed S. Atrees

As the demand for uranium production-based energy worldwide has been increasing in the last decades to maintain nuclear growth for electricity production, there are great efforts towards developing an easy and inexpensive method for uranium extractio...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,790 Views
15 Pages

In real life, sessile droplets usually have a three-dimensional shape, making it difficult to understand their forced wetting behavior, both from an experimental and a theoretical perspective. Even in the case of spreading under quasi-static conditio...

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