Exploiting liquid surface tension in microrobotics

A Barbot, F Ortiz, A Bolopion… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Surface tension effects are known to be dominant at the submillimeter scale. Within this
context, the literature has extensively described the underlying physics (eg, surface tension …

Capillarity: revisiting the fundamentals of liquid marbles

P Singha, CH Ooi, NK Nguyen, KR Sreejith… - Microfluidics and …, 2020 - Springer
Liquid marble, an emerging platform for digital microfluidics, has shown its potential in
biomedical applications, cosmetics, and chemical industries. Recently, the manipulation and …

Electromagnetic wave-induced nanofluid-oil interfacial tension reduction for enhanced oil recovery

FA Wahaab, LL Adebayo, AA Adekoya, JY Yusuf… - Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Interfacial tension (IFT) reduction is widely acknowledged as one of the prominent oil
recovery mechanism during nanofluid flooding enhanced oil recovery (EOR). Hence, in this …

Evaporation of water and urea solution in a magnetic field; the role of nuclear isomers

S Poulose, M Venkatesan, M Möbius… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Ortho and para water are the two nuclear isomers where the hydrogen protons
align to give a total nuclear spin of 1 or 0. The equilibrium ratio of 3: 1 is established slowly …

Moses effect: Physics and applications

E Bormashenko - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2019 - Elsevier
Deformation of the surface of a diamagnetic liquid by a magnetic field is called the “Moses
Effect”. Magnetic fields of ca 0.5 T give rise to near surface dips with a depth of dozens of …

Magnetic levitation using diamagnetism: Mechanism, applications and prospects

QH Gao, H Yan, HX Zou, WB Li, ZK Peng… - Science China …, 2021 - Springer
As a typical contact-free manipulation technique that removes friction and contamination
risk, levitation has gradually become a preferred candidate for various applications …

Investigation of the surface tension of water-based Fe3O4 magnetic fluids under magnetic field: The effect of surfactants

Q Chen, D Li, Z Yang, Z Xue, J Hao, H Wang, S Xu… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, water-based Fe 3 O 4 magnetic fluids were prepared and the effect of
surfactants on magnetic surface tension was investigated under a constant magnetic field …

Deformation and necking of liquid droplets in a magnetic field

S Poulose, JA Quirke, P Stamenov, ME Möbius… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Pendant droplets of water and paramagnetic solutions are studied in the presence of
uniform and nonuniform magnetic fields produced by small permanent magnet arrays, both …

Interfacial vs bulk phenomena effects on the surface tensions of aqueous magnetic surfactants in uniform magnetic fields

DM Reed, A Fortenberry, EA Wolfe, RA Stanhope… - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
The literature clearly reports that magnetic surfactant systems respond to magnetic fields.
This manuscript investigates if the responses are because the magnetic fields directly alter …

The natural non-ionic magnetic surfactants: nanomicellar and interfacial properties

B Sohrabi, F Mansouri, S Karimi - Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry, 2022 - Springer
In some applications, including the interaction of surfactants with petroleum products, the
use of magnetic surfactants is a good idea for collecting the oil leaked from ships on …