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Interfacial Dynamics of Water-in-Oil Dropliets: a Temperature-Jump Investigation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Paschalis Alexandridis ,
Josef F. Holzwarth  and
T. Alan Hatton
Paschalis Alexandridis
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Josef F. Holzwarth
Affiliation:
Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, Berlin, Germany.
T. Alan Hatton
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
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Abstract

The dynamic response of water-in-oil AOT microemulsion droplets to perturbations caused by rapid energy transfer has been interpreted in terms of the surfactant interface bending rigidity. The Iodine Laser Temperature Jump technique was used to rapidly (1 μs) increase the microemulsion temperature and thus disturb the system equilibrium. The dynamic relaxation to the new equilibrium position was monitored by measuring the turbidity of the microemulsion over a I ms time interval immediately after the temperature jump. The rate and direction of the turbidity change depended on the initial temperature, size and salt content of the water droplets. We observed characteristic times of 2 to 10 μs and attributed them to the relaxation of the surfactant interface. A bending modulus of 0.4 kT was derived for the AOT interface, using a model for the shape perturbation of a spherical interface.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 290: Symposium N – Dynamics in Small Confining Systems , 1992 , 299
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1993

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