Surfactant- and Aqueous-Foam-Driven Oil Extraction from Micropatterned Surfaces

Autor: Elise Lorenceau, Howard A. Stone, Jason Wexler, Rémy Mensire, Augustin Guibaud
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire Navier (navier umr 8205), École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux (IFSTTAR), Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering [Princeton] (MAE), Princeton University, École polytechnique (X)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Langmuir
Langmuir, American Chemical Society, 2016, 32 (49), pp.13149-13158. ⟨10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b03225⟩
ISSN: 0743-7463
1520-5827
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b03225⟩
Popis: International audience; Liquid-infused surfaces are rough or patterned surfaces in which a lubricating fluid, such as oil, is infused, which exhibits various original properties (omniphobicity, biofouling, drag reduction). An outer flow in a confined geometry can entrain the oil trapped between the pattern of the surfaces by shearing the oil–water interface and cause the loss of the omniphobic properties of the interface. Starting from the theoretical analysis of Wexler et al. (Shear-driven failure of liquid-infused surfaces. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2015, 114, 168301), where a pure aqueous solution is the outer phase, we extend the predictions by introducing an extraction efficiency parameter α and by accounting for new dynamical effects induced by surfactants and aqueous foams. For surfactant solutions, decreasing the oil–water interfacial tension (γow) not only enhances oil extraction as expected but also modifies the dynamics of the receding oil–water interface through the variations of the receding contact angle (θ) with the capillary number (Ca), which is the ratio between the viscous and the capillary forces at the oil–water interface. For aqueous foams, the extraction dynamics are also influenced by the foam flow: oil is sheared by the thin film between the bubbles and the lubricating layer, which imposes a stronger interfacial shear compared to pure aqueous solutions. In both surfactant and foam cases, the experimental observations show the existence of nonuniform extraction dynamics related to the surfactant-induced instability of a two-fluid shear flow.
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