Bubble Attachment to Cellulose and Silica Surfaces of Varied Surface Energies : Wetting Transition and Implications in Foam Forming
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2020-07-07
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Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems
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Langmuir, Volume 36, issue 26, pp. 7296-7308
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To better understand the complex system of wet foams in the presence of cellulosic fibers, we investigate bubble-surface interactions by following the effects of surface hydrophobicity and surface tension on the contact angle of captive bubbles. Bubbles are brought into contact with model silica and cellulose surfaces immersed in solutions of a foaming surfactant (sodium dodecyl sulfate) of different concentrations. It is observed that bubble attachment is controlled by surface wetting, but a significant scatter in the behavior occurs near the transition from partial to complete wetting. For chemically homogeneous silica surfaces, this transition during bubble attachment is described by the balance between the energy changes of the immersed surface and the frictional surface tension of the moving three-phase contact line. The situation is more complex with chemically heterogeneous, hydrophobic trimethylsilyl cellulose (TMSC). TMSC regeneration, which yields hydrophilic cellulose, causes a dramatic drop in the bubble contact angle. Moreover, a high interfacial tension is required to overcome the friction caused by microscopic (hydrophilic) pinning sites of the three-phase contact line during bubble attachment. A simple theoretical framework is introduced to explain our experimental observations.Description
* Ack:ssa mutta ei silti mukaan raportointiin | openaire: EC/H2020/788489/EU//BioElCell
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Ketola, A E, Xiang, W, Hjelt, T, Pajari, H, Tammelin, T, Rojas, O J & Ketoja, J A 2020, ' Bubble Attachment to Cellulose and Silica Surfaces of Varied Surface Energies : Wetting Transition and Implications in Foam Forming ', Langmuir, vol. 36, no. 26, pp. 7296-7308 . https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c00682