This book describes the most important experimental methods for characterizing liquid interfaces, such as drop profile analysis, bubble pressure and drop volume tensiometry, capillary pressure technique, and oscillating drops and bubbles. It presents practical experimental details as well as the underlying theoretical bases. In addition, the book covers a number of applications based on drops and bubbles, such as rising bubbles and the complex process of flotation. It also offers a discussion on wetting, characterized by the dynamics of advancing contact angles.
Introduction. Determination of Interfacial Properties by the Pendant
Drop Tensiometry. Advances in Calculation Methods for the Determination of
Surface Tensions in Drop Profile Analysis Tensiometry. Axisymmetric Drop
Shape Analysis with Anisotropic Interfacial Stresses. Maximum Bubble Pressure
Tensiometry. Drop Volume Tensiometry. Studies in Capillary Pressure
Tensiometry and Interfacial Dilational Rheology. Direct Determination of
Protein and Surfactant Adsorption by Drop and Bubble Profile Tensiometry.
Coaxial Capillary Pendant Drop Experiments with Subphase Exchange. Wetting
Dynamics of Aqueous Solutions on Solid Surfaces. Bubbles Rising in Solutions;
Local and Terminal Velocities, Shape Variations and Collisions with Free
Surface. Surface Tension Measurement of Polymer Melts in Supercritical
Fluids. Accumulation of Surfactant in the Top Foam Layer Caused by Ruptured
Foam Films. ParticleBubble Interaction in Flotation. Experimental
Observation of DropDrop Coalescence in LiquidLiquid Systems. The
Tensiograph Platform for Optical Measurement. Emulsification with
Micro-Structured Membranes and Micro-Engineered Systems. Manipulation of
Droplets onto a Planar Interface. Interfacial Mass Transfer of Growing Drops
in LiquidLiquid Systems.
Reinhard Miller, Libero Liggieri
