scholarly journals A Study of the Evaporation of Small Drops and of the Relationship Between Surface Tension and Curvature

1936 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Shereshefsky ◽  
Sylvia Steckler
Author(s):  
Rami Benkreif ◽  
Fatima Zohra Brahmia ◽  
Csilla Csiha

AbstractSurface tension of solid wood surfaces affects the wettability and thus the adhesion of various adhesives and wood coatings. By measuring the contact angle of the wood, the surface tension can be calculated based on the Young-Dupré equation. Several publications have reported on contact angle measured with different test liquids, under different conditions. Results can only be compared if the test conditions are similar. While the roles of the drop volume, image shooting time etc., are widely recognized, the role of the wood surface moisture content (MC) is not evaluated in detail. In this study, the effect of wood moisture content on contact angle values, measured with distilled water and diiodomethane, on sanded birch (Betula pendula) surfaces was investigated, in order to find the relationship between them. With increasing MC from approximately 6% to 30%, increasing contact angle (decreasing surface tension) values were measured according to a logarithmic function. The function makes possible the calculation of contact angles that correspond to different MCs.


1990 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. P. Gaver ◽  
R. W. Samsel ◽  
J. Solway

We studied airway opening in a benchtop model intended to mimic bronchial walls held in apposition by airway lining fluid. We measured the relationship between the airway opening velocity (U) and the applied airway opening pressure in thin-walled polyethylene tubes of different radii (R) using lining fluids of different surface tensions (gamma) and viscosities (mu). Axial wall tension (T) was applied to modify the apparent wall compliance characteristics, and the lining film thickness (H) was varied. Increasing mu or gamma or decreasing R or T led to an increase in the airway opening pressures. The effect of H depended on T: when T was small, opening pressures increased slightly as H was decreased; when T was large, opening pressure was independent of H. Using dimensional analysis, we found that the relative importance of viscous and surface tension forces depends on the capillary number (Ca = microU/gamma). When Ca is small, the opening pressure is approximately 8 gamma/R and acts as an apparent “yield pressure” that must be exceeded before airway opening can begin. When Ca is large (Ca greater than 0.5), viscous forces add appreciably to the overall opening pressures. Based on these results, predictions of airway opening times suggest that airway closure can persist through a considerable portion of inspiration when lining fluid viscosity or surface tension are elevated.


In this work the bile acids and certain of their derivatives have been studied with regard to their bacteriostatic power and relative activities in removing the Gram-positive complex from yeast. No correlation between these properties was obtained. A simple relationship was apparent, however, between the bacteriostatic activities of the compounds and their ability to depress the surface tension of the metabolism medium. The limiting dilution at which the 'active' bile acids were bacteriostatic for Staphylococcus aureus corresponded to a depression of the surface tension of the medium by approximately 4∙5 dynes. The relationship between bacteriostatic power and surface activity was only valid for this particular series of compounds of closely related molecular structure.


1982 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. A. Hills ◽  
R. E. Barrow

The relationship between surface tension and surface area has been measured on each of three common pulmonary surfactants - dipalmitoyl lecithin (DPL), dipalmitoyl phosphatidylethanolamine, and sphyngomyelin-under simultaneously simulated physiological conditions. These are selected to simulate the state of any surfactant that has migrated onto the surface of venous bubbles filtered by the pulmonary vasculature. It is concluded that, in the absence of shunt vessels, only DPL could reduce surface tension enough to allow pulmonary gas emboli to escape into arterial blood and then only after compression. This finding is discussed in relation to the delay in any appearance of bubbles in arterial blood and the possible facilitation of the release of asymptomatic lung bubbles by recompression therapy. The suggestion is made to reconsider stopping recompression of a subject with peripheral decompression sickness (the bends) at the depth of relief rather than risk releasing pulmonary gas emboli by further recompression. It is also demonstrated how the introduction of 1-min stops into compression can avoid surface tension falling to the low values at which it is theoretically possible for venous bubbles to escape into arterial blood during pulmonary hypertension.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Nannan Wu ◽  
Shunli Ouyang ◽  
Junjie Cui ◽  
Shiliang Liu ◽  
Mingzhe Zhang ◽  
...  

Surface tension (http://mts.hindawi.com/update/) in our Manuscript Tracking System and after you have logged in click on the ORCID link at the top of the page. This link will take you to the ORCID website where you will be able to create an account for yourself. Once you have done so, your new ORCID will be saved in our Manuscript Tracking System automatically."?>and Raman spectra containing hydrogen bonding in acetonitrile aqueous solutions with different mole ratios were obtained. Varied surface tension and hydrogen bonding in the mixed solution were discussed. For this purpose, the OH stretching bands were fitted into three Gaussian components to which different hydrogen-bonded water samples were assigned. Furthermore, the microstructures of binary solution were analyzed. The results indicated that the surface tension decreases dramatically with the enhancement of hydrogen bonds in the mixture. A spectroscopic method for studying the macroscopic properties of aqueous solutions was employed. The direct experiment results provided the relationship between surface tension and microstructure in aqueous solutions.


2012 ◽  
Vol 560-561 ◽  
pp. 28-34
Author(s):  
Zhao You Zhu ◽  
Da Wei Zhang ◽  
Ying Long Wang

The solubility of caffeine in water between 323.15 and 353.15 K was measured using the balance method. The solubility trend was modeled by use of the modified Apelblat equation and Yaws equation. The calculated solubility values according to the two empirical equations compare favorably with the experimental data. Besides, the relationship between supersaturated ratio and induction time was studied with the method of laser, basing on which, the surface tension of caffeine at 283.15 K, 293.15 K and 298.15 K in water was calculated.


Author(s):  
Kai-Lin Pan ◽  
Yi-Lin Yan ◽  
Bin Zhou

How to integrate the microstructures which are made by various micro manufacturing methods into a functional system or device is the key to the application of MEMS technology. Solder self-assembly is based on surface tension with the properties of “self-organization”, low cost, batch processes and the compatibility with surface mount technology, which makes it be a challenging alternate technique. Solder self-assembly is based on the principle of surface energy minimization of molten solder material. During the process of minimizing the surface energy, surface tension can pull the horizontal hinged or hingeless plate up to a particular angle to achieve the minimal system energy. Finite element method is applied in this paper. MEMS self-assembly three-dimensional dynamic simulation model is developed by SURFACE EVOLVER. First, the model in this paper dynamically simulate the angle change of hinged plate during the process of evolvement of solder; second, the comparisons among the results from the current model and those from analytical two-dimensional model and three-dimensional static model are carried out; third, through Design of Experiments (DoE) with the application of the current model, the influences of design parameters such as pad size, pad geometry, and solder paste volume to the assembly angle are compared and discussed. Through changing the pad size, pad geometry and solder paste volume in SURFACE EVOLVER model, the corresponding final assembly angel from dynamic three-dimensional models are obtained. The relationship between design parameters to the assembly angle is concluded by the application of statistical analyses. The final angle can be controlled more effectively through synthetically optimize these parameters. It can provide effective guidance to the practical manufacturing of MEMS. Further research should focuses on the MEMS self-assembly experiment to intensively understand the relationship between the pad sizes, pad position, solder paste volume, hinge position, lock position and intermetallic compounds and the final assembly angle.


2011 ◽  
Vol 492 ◽  
pp. 277-282
Author(s):  
Qing Lei Wang ◽  
De Cai Li ◽  
Fan Wang

The author measured surface tension coefficient for liquid with a new experimental apparatus, measured magnetic fluid surface tension coefficient at different temperatures and with different volume of surfactant. By the analysis of experimental data, we obtained that magnetic fluid surface tension coefficient decreases with the increasing temperature and increases with the addition of surfactant volume and reaches a certain stability value. We also obtained the expression of magnetic fluid surface tension coefficient and the temperature or surfactant. This paper discussed the relationship between the liquid surface tension coefficient and the temperature and surfactant from the view of thermodynamics.


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