Surface tension is an important characteristic of materials. In particular at high temperatures, surface tension values are often unknown. However, for metals, these values are highly relevant in order to enable efficient industrial processing or sim...
More than 200 years since the earliest scientific investigations by Young, Laplace and Plateau, liquid surface tension is still the object of thriving fundamental and applied research [...]
Surface tension is among the most important factors in chemical and pharmaceutical processes. Modeling the surface tension of solvents at different temperatures helps to optimize the type of solvent and temperature. The surface tension of solvents at...
Surface tension and surface energy are closely related, although not identical concepts. Surface tension is a generalized force; unlike a conventional mechanical force, it is not applied to any particular body or point. Using this notion, we suggest...
To support computational studies and process optimization that require temperature-dependent thermophysical properties, this study characterized the wettability, surface tension, liquid–solid interfacial tension (IFT), and work of adhesion of A...
A new method and related sensory system used to determine the surface tension (γ) of a liquid investigated based on the increase of the area (A) of a drop vibrated sinusoidally is presented. The materialization of the method consists in specific devi...
With the increasing use of Computational Fluid Dynamics to investigate multiphase flow scenarios, modelling surface tension effects has been a topic of active research. A well known associated problem is the generation of spurious velocities (or curr...
Wiping system are widely employed in industrial processes to remove liquid residue from the final product. Therefore, the performance of the impingement of a gas jet upon a liquid surface or molten bath is relevant in many industrial and metallurgica...
The highest effectiveness of heat exchange is under boiling; hence, surface tension is an important parameter and should be determined when new liquid substances are created. The most popular methods are based on numerically solving the Young–L...
Studies of the interfacial behavior of pure aqueous nanoparticles have been limited due tothe difficulty of making contaminant-free nanoparticles while also providing narrow size distribution. Colloidal unimolecular polymers (CUPs) are a new type of...
An all-fiber approach is presented to measure surface tension. The experimental realization relies on the use of a specialty fiber, a so-called two-hole fiber (THF), which serves a two-fold purpose: providing a capillary channel to produce bubbles wh...
Using neodymium ring magnets (0.5–0.65 T), the experiments on the magnetic field (MF) effects on water evaporation rate and surface tension were performed at room temperature (22–24 °C). In accordance with the literature data, the enh...
The low recovery (∼50%) in industrial pyrochlore flotation highlights the need for optimization. This study evaluates the influence of surface tension (
The newest method for determining surface tension is being validated, which is done for the air–water interface. Since the relative differences between the benchmark values and the experimental results are very small, the newest method seems to be va...
The bending resonance of micro-sized resonators has been utilized to study adsorption of analyte molecules in complex fluids of picogram quantity. Traditionally, the analysis to characterize the resonance frequency has focused solely on the mass chan...
Surface tension has a great influence on the shape of the fluid interface, and is an important physical characteristic in expressing not only liquids but also liquid metals such as mercury and gallium. In the field of physics-based particle fluid sim...
Real-time measuring and obtaining surface tension of liquid metal during the arc welding process is critical for studying the behavior of the weld pool, such as Marangoni flow and flow velocity. The dynamic variation of surface tension of weld pool d...
In order to study the effect of inorganic salt additives on the surface tension of a sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate (SDBS) solution, the surface tension of the mixed system of six common inorganic salt additives, NaCl, CaCl2, AlCl3, Na2SO4, Na2CO3,...
Computer numerical control (CNC) lathes are optimized for machining workpieces into rotating shafts or cylindrical shapes of structures. However, because rotating mechanical parts are used on CNC lathes, vibration from spindles, servomotors, hydrauli...
Alignment and orderly distribution of microfibers have a major effect on the mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties of the fiber reinforced materials, biomimetic materials, and soft microsensors. However, it is still a challenging task to pre...
Methyl isobutyl carbinol (MIBC) is a high-performance surfactant with unusual interfacial properties much appreciated in industrial applications, particularly in mineral flotation. In this study, the structure of air–liquid interfaces of aqueou...
The motion of bubbles in an ultrasonic field is a fundamental physical mechanism in most applications of acoustic cavitation. In these applications, surface-active solutes, which could lower the surface tension of the liquid, are always utilized to i...
To investigate the influence of surface tension and viscosity on the atomization performance of solid cone nozzles and improve their dust reduction efficiency in industrial and mining enterprises, this study employed a self-built PDPA dust-fog coupli...
We report on the surface and interface tension measurements of the two ionic liquids (ILs) [C8C1Im][PF6] and [m(PEGn)2Im]I (n = 2, 4, 6) in a surface science approach. The measurements were performed in a newly developed and unique experimental setup...
The connection between surface tension and viscosity has been the subject of several pieces of research on nanofluids. Researchers have discovered differing relationships between these two suspension qualities in the literature. Surface tension and v...
Measurements of the surface tension of the aqueous solution of SDDS mixture with fluorocarbon surfactants (FC) were carried out and considered in light of the surface tension of aqueous solutions of individual surfactants. Similar analyses were made...
Quantifying bolt tension and ensuring that bolts are appropriately tightened for large-scale civil infrastructures are crucial. This study investigated the feasibility of employing the surface acoustic wave (SAW) for quantifying the bolt tension via...
The demand for sustainable packaging has increased the interest in biopolymer coatings as alternatives to plastic-based barriers on paper and board. Alginate and chitosan offer promising barrier properties by improving gas barrier and grease resistan...
The interactions between surfactants and a drag-reducing polymer were investigated at a low polymer concentration of 500 ppm, using measurements of the rheology and surface activity of surfactant-polymer solutions. A well-known drag-reducing polymer...
Controlling the rheological properties of liquids allows for the regulation of effective movement, transport of substances, and processes in biological systems. This work presents an experimental investigation into the influence of the proton-exchang...
Capillary-driven action is an important phenomenon which aids the development of high-performance heat transfer devices, such as microscale heat pipes. This study examines the capillary rise dynamics of n-butanol/water mixture in a single vertical ca...
This article describes a module and method for measuring the surface tension of liquid solders implemented on a measuring device as part of an integrated platform for automatic measurement of brazebility parameters at high temperatures. A concept for...
The pendant drop method is often used to determine the surface tension of liquids. However, in the process of calculating surface tension, corresponding density data are required, which brings a series of problems to the determination of the surface...
The structure and properties of water and aqueous solutions have always been the focus of attention. The surface tension of acetone aqueous solutions were measured by using Raman spectra in different molecule environments, and the changes of surface...
The surface tension of a liquid droplet can be determined by fitting its actual profiles using the Young–Laplace equation, effectively reducing the measurement of surface tension to an accurate determination of the droplet’s profiles. Spe...
Deep eutectic solvents (DES) are an important class of green solvents that have been developed as an alternative to toxic solvents. However, the large-scale industrial application of DESs requires fine-tuning their physicochemical properties. Among o...
Background: The study of processes in the drying drops of biological fluids (dried drop patterns) and the method of dynamic surface tensiometry can be attributed to integral methods of assessing the state of the organism. Research objective: to estab...
A theory for the micelle formation of nonionic head-tail amphiphiles (detergents) in aqueous solutions is derived based on the traditional molecular thermodynamic modeling approach and a variant of the Flory–Huggins theory that goes beyond latt...
In this paper, we report our findings on implementing a synthetic phased array surface acoustic wave sensor to quantify bolt tension. Maintaining proper bolt tension is important in many fields such as for ensuring safe operation of civil infrastruct...
The ocular surface is in constant interaction with the environment and with numerous pathogens. Therefore, complex mechanisms such as a stable tear film and local immune defense mechanisms are required to protect the eye. This study describes the det...
Walking on water is made possible, at least for tiny insects, by molecular interaction at the interfaces of dissimilar materials. Impact of these interactions—surface tension (SFT) and, more broadly, interfacial tension (IFT)—is particula...
To accurately measure the surface tension of liquid titanium free of contamination from chemical reaction with the supporting materials and dissolution of atmospheric oxygen, the measurement was performed by using electromagnetic levitation (EML) and...
Surface tension has a strong influence on the shape of fluid interfaces. We propose a method to calculate the corresponding forces efficiently. In contrast to several previous approaches, we discriminate to this end between surface and non-surface SP...
We investigated the surface tension and surface composition of various mixtures of the two ionic liquids (ILs) 1-methyl-3-octyl-imidazolium hexafluorophosphate [C8C1Im][PF6] and 1,3-bis(polyethylene glycol)imidazolium iodide [(mPEG2)2Im]I in the temp...
The electronics industry has significantly contributed to the development of efficient heat dissipation systems. One widely used technique is pool boiling, a simple method requiring no moving parts or complex structures. It enables the removal of lar...
The aim of this study was to identify and determine differences in surface tension (ST) of aqueous humor (AH) in patients with cataract, glaucoma and Fuchs endothelial dystrophy (FED). Two hundred and two samples of AH were analyzed (control n = 22;...
In order to clarify the adsorption behavior of cationic surfactants on the air/aqueous electrolyte solution surface, we derived the theoretical equation for the surface tension. The equation includes the electrical work required for charging the air/...
A recently developed thermodynamic theory for the determination of the driving force of crystallization and the crystal–melt surface tension is applied to the ice-water system employing the new Thermodynamic Equation of Seawater TEOS-10. The de...
This work analyzes the dynamic viscosity, surface tension and wetting behavior of phase change material nano–emulsions (PCMEs) formulated at dispersed phase concentrations of 2, 4 and 10 wt.%. Paraffin–in–water samples were produced...
The paper presents the results concerning the influence of concentration and storage time on the equilibrium surface tension of chemical solutions used in a clean-in place (CIP) system. Standard cleaning solutions (prepared under laboratory condition...
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