Particle rafts and armored droplets

S Protière - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Particles floating at interfaces are commonly observed in nature, as well as in industrial
processes. When the particles are non-Brownian particles, large deformations of the …

Comprehensive review on the role of surfactants in the chemical enhanced oil recovery process

S Chowdhury, S Shrivastava, A Kakati… - Industrial & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
With a constant upsurge in energy demand, production from depleted and harsh reservoirs
through enhanced oil recovery techniques (EOR) has significantly increased. Among many …

A review on quantifying the influence of lateral capillary interactions on the particle floatability and stability of particle-laden interfaces

X Ma, NN Nguyen, AV Nguyen - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Particle-laden interfaces are critical to the flotation separation of hydrophobic particles using
air bubbles. After contacting the particle suspension, the bubble surface is loaded with many …

Constructing a viscoelastic film for enhanced oil recovery via self-adsorption of amphiphilic nanosheets at oil-water interface

T Liang, Y Wen, M Qu, C Yang, W Wu, T Ma… - Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
Immiscible liquid-liquid interfaces have widespread applications in drug delivery, oil-water
separation, oil recovery, emulsion and foam stability, etc. Here, a dense viscoelastic …

Assembly and mechanical response of amphiphilic Janus nanosheets at oil-water interfaces

T Yin, Z Yang, F Zhang, M Lin, J Zhang… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Hypothesis: Amphiphilic Janus nanosheets are plate-shaped, with one hydrophilic
and one hydrophobic side; they are expected to assemble at oil-water interfaces. The …

Universality of Scaling Laws Governing Contact and Spreading Time Spans of Bouncing Liquid Marbles and its Physical Origin

A Kaushal, S Shoval, BP Binks, E Bormashenko - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
The impact of liquid marbles coated with a diversity of hydrophobic powders with various
solid substrates, including hydrophobic, hydrophilic, and superhydrophobic ones, was …

Configuration Evolution of a Particle Raft with a Preprepared Crack Driven by the Diffusion of a Surfactant

M Yao, P Zuo, G Cao, J Liu - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
In the present study, the morphology evolution of a particle raft with a preprepared crack,
which is caused by injecting the surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) into water, is …

Effects of coarse and fine aggregates on long-term mechanical properties of sea sand recycled aggregate concrete

J Ying, Y Huang, X Gao, X Qi, Y Sun - Frontiers of Structural and Civil …, 2021 - Springer
Typical effects of coarse and fine aggregates on the long-term properties of sea sand
recycled aggregate concrete (SSRAC) are analyzed by a series of axial compression tests …

Tension and bending of the particle raft driven by a magnet

P Zuo, Y Cheng, Z Wang, X Dou, J Liu - Colloid and Interface Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The particle raft is a special soft material formed by depositing hydrophobic particles onto
the water surface. This paper investigates the deformation of particle rafts under non-contact …

Motion and Orientation of Janus Spherical Particles at a Liquid–Air Interface Governed by the Moses Effect

A Kaushal, O Gendelman, S Shoval, K Kuroiwa… - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
We investigated the motion of spherical polystyrene/polypyrrole-coated polystyrene Janus
particles placed at an air/saline interface and driven by a permanent magnetic field of ca. 0.5 …