Single bubble and drop techniques for characterizing foams and emulsions

VC Suja, M Rodriguez-Hakim, J Tajuelo… - Advances in colloid and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The physics of foams and emulsions has traditionally been studied using bulk
foam/emulsion tests and single film platforms such as the Scheludko cell. Recently there has …

Flow field-based data analysis in interfacial shear rheometry

P Sánchez-Puga, J Tajuelo, JM Pastor… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Developments in interfacial shear rheometers have considerably improved the quality of
experimental data. However, data analysis in interfacial shear rheometry is still an active …

Influence of depolymerases and lipases on the degradation of polyhydroxyalkanoates determined in langmuir degradation studies

NA Tarazona, R Machatschek… - Advanced Materials …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Microbially produced polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are polyesters that are degradable by
naturally occurring enzymes. Albeit PHAs degrade slowly when implanted in animal models …

Asphaltene-induced spontaneous emulsification: Effects of interfacial co-adsorption and viscoelasticity

M Rodríguez-Hakim, S Anand, J Tajuelo, Z Yao… - Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Asphaltenes are a class of high molecular weight aromatic compounds found in crude oil.
They adsorb onto toluene-water interfaces and induce a spontaneous emulsification …

[HTML][HTML] Interfacial rheology testing of molten polymer systems: Effect of molecular weight and temperature on the interfacial properties

Y El Omari, M Yousfi, J Duchet-Rumeau, A Maazouz - Polymer Testing, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of new interfacial rheological setup (IRS) for characterizing the interfacial
viscoelastic properties of polymer systems is a subject of growing interest and constitutes a …

Unraveling the interplay between abiotic hydrolytic degradation and crystallization of bacterial polyesters comprising short and medium side-chain-length …

NA Tarazona, R Machatschek, A Lendlein - Biomacromolecules, 2019 - ACS Publications
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) have attracted attention as degradable (co) polyesters which
can be produced by microorganisms with variations in the side chain. This structural …

Stable aqueous foams containing Nanoparticle-enhanced wormlike micelles as the fracturing fluids

J Zhou, PG Ranjith - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2024 - Elsevier
The petroleum industry makes extensive use of aqueous foams; however, their efficacy is
constrained considerably by their long-term stability. Polymers are frequently utilized to …

Grazing incidence X-ray diffraction studies of lipid–peptide mixed monolayers during shear flow

PK Bera, AK Kandar, R Krishnaswamy, P Fontaine… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXD) studies of monolayers of biomolecules at an air–
water interface give quantitative information of in-plane packing, coherence length of …

BiconeDrag updated–A data processing application for the oscillating conical bob interfacial shear rheometer

P Sánchez-Puga, J Tajuelo, JM Pastor… - Computer Physics …, 2021 - Elsevier
We present a new improved version of BiconeDrag, a code that allows one to obtain the
values of interfacial dynamic moduli from dynamic experiments performed in rotational …

Dynamic Measurements with the Bicone Interfacial Shear Rheometer: The Effects of the Numerical Implementation of the Interfacial Boundary Condition

P Sánchez-Puga, J Tajuelo, JM Pastor… - Colloids and Interfaces, 2021 - mdpi.com
The increasing popularity of flow field-based data analysis (FFBDA) techniques has a
paradigmatic example in the routines already developed for the rotational oscillating bicone …