Laser-induzierte schnelle thermische Desorption von Festkörper-Oberflächen / Rapid Laser Beam Induced Thermal Desorption from Solid Surfaces

1972 ◽  
Vol 27 (11) ◽  
pp. 1607-1610 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Ertl ◽  
M. Neumann

Abstract Absorption of a pulse of laser light in the surface region of a solid causes a fast temperature increase, followed, after the end of the laser pulse, by a rapid decrease to the base temperature. Experiments with a Nd laser (power 105 - 106 W/cm2, half width of the pulse 150 μsec) showed that desorption of CO from a Pd surface reaches its maximum rate within the time constant of the system ( ~ 0.5 msec). This effect can be used for example to investigate the kinetics of adsorption /desorption processes by means of relaxation methods.

Soft Matter ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 1890-1890 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan L. Minkov ◽  
Dimitrinka Arabadzhieva ◽  
Ibrahim E. Salama ◽  
Elena Mileva ◽  
Radomir I. Slavchov

Correction for ‘Barrier kinetics of adsorption–desorption of alcohol monolayers on water under constant surface tension’ by Ivan L. Minkov et al., Soft Matter, 2019, DOI: 10.1039/c8sm02076k.


2016 ◽  
Vol 113 (41) ◽  
pp. 11465-11470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birte Riechers ◽  
Florine Maes ◽  
Elias Akoury ◽  
Benoît Semin ◽  
Philipp Gruner ◽  
...  

Emulsions are metastable dispersions. Their lifetimes are directly related to the dynamics of surfactants. We design a microfluidic method to measure the kinetics of adsorption of surfactants to the droplet interface, a key process involved in foaming, emulsification, and droplet coarsening. The method is based on the pH decay in the droplet as a direct measurement of the adsorption of a carboxylic acid surfactant to the interface. From the kinetic measurement of the bulk equilibration of the pH, we fully determine the adsorption process of the surfactant. The small droplet size and the convection during the droplet flow ensure that the transport of surfactant through the bulk is not limiting the kinetics of adsorption. To validate our measurements, we show that the adsorption process determines the timescale required to stabilize droplets against coalescence, and we show that the interface should be covered at more than 90% to prevent coalescence. We therefore quantitatively link the process of adsorption/desorption, the stabilization of emulsions, and the kinetics of solute partitioning—here through ion exchange—unraveling the timescales governing these processes. Our method can be further generalized to other surfactants, including nonionic surfactants, by making use of fluorophore–surfactant interactions.


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