期刊
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
卷 445, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2022.136658
关键词
Dynamic interfacial tension; Surfactant adsorption kinetics; Microfluidic droplet formation; Nonionic surfactants
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [92034303, 21776150]
Surfactant adsorption plays an important role in microfluidic droplet formation, and this research proposes a method to determine the time-evolving interfacial tension using a differential pressure based microfluidic platform. The study shows that increasing surfactant concentration and flow rate promote surfactant adsorption.
Surfactant adsorption plays an important role in the microfluidic droplet formation process, which manifested as dynamic interfacial tension phenomenon. Due to rapid droplet expansion and convection flow around the droplet, traditional methods of interfacial tension measurement are difficult to investigate the surfactant adsorption kinetics in microfluidic process. We thus developed a differential pressure based microfluidic platform and proposed an in-situ method to determine time-evolving interfacial tension during microfluidic droplet formation according to Young-Laplace equation in this research. Four classical nonionic surfactants: Triton X-100, Tween 20, Brij 56, and Brij 58 were tested with classical n-octant/water as the working system. The concentrations of these surfactants at interface were further determined from the measured interfacial tension based on Frumkin adsorption model. The adsorption rates of surfactant showed that increasing surfactant concentration in the bulk solution and flow rate of continuous phase both promoted surfactant adsorption in the cases of Tween 20, Brij 56, and Brij 58, indicating the mass transfer-controlled mechanism of adsorption kinetics. The average thickness of mass transfer boundary layer ranged from 0.1 to 5 mu m was determined from the mass transfer rate and a correlation equation was proposed to predict the thickness. However, the adsorption mechanism of Triton X-100 turned to be kinetics-controlled for its high critical micelle concentration, which helped to determine the adsorption and desorption rate constants.
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