## NOTE Effect of Surfactant Concentration and Film Area on the Stability of Films of Surfactant Solutions The long relaxation time, t 2 , of micelles reaches a maximum at 200 m M SDS and is related to the micelle lifetime. It plays an important The effect of surfactant concentration and film are
Effect of Interfacial Concentration Gradients of Insoluble Surfactants on Local Film-Thinning
β Scribed by Haihua Shen; Stanley Hartland
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 370 KB
- Volume
- 167
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9797
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β¦ Synopsis
A mathematical model is formulated and solved numerically describing the local thinning of liquid films between a solid/ liquid interface and a fluid/liquid interface with a variable surface concentration of an insoluble surfactant. Reynolds lubrication approximation is used. The initial excess surfactant distribution is two-dimensional (Gaussian. The film thins most rapidly at the center of the disturbance until a thickness is reached at which rupture may occur. Alternatively a minimum film thickness is reached after which the film recovers and eventually regains its original thickness. The time to reach the minimum thickness lengthens as the background concentration of surfactant approaches zero. (1994 Academic Press. Inc.
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