Modelling of Surface Properties of Selected Silicate System

2011 ◽  
Vol 291-294 ◽  
pp. 444-448
Author(s):  
Jana Dobrovská ◽  
Rostislav Dudek ◽  
Silvie Vitásková ◽  
František Kavička

Presented paper deals with investigation of selected ternary oxidic system with high content of silicates from the viewpoint of surface properties. Research was focused not only on experimental investigation, but mostly on theoretical modelling of surface tension. This approach was chosen due to absence of compact set of information from the area of heterogeneous processes at high temperatures. It is moreover very often difficult to access appropriate data. Surface propertieswere investigated by sessile drop method. Afterwards calculation was made with use of selected semi-empirical models and obtained outputs were confronted with experimentally obtained data. Modelling comprised also temperature dependence of surface tension and influence of SiO2 on its values.

2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Sklyarchuk ◽  
Yu. Plevachuka ◽  
I. Kaban ◽  
R. Novakovic

Surface tension and density measurements of liquid Ag-Sb-Sn alloys were carried out over a wide temperature range by using the sessile drop method. The surface tension experimental data were analyzed by the Butler thermodynamic model in the regular solution approximation. The wetting characteristics of these alloys on Cu and Ni substrates have been also determined. The new experimental results were compared with the calculated values as well as with data available in the literature.


2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-270
Author(s):  
S.I. Mudryi ◽  
M.A. Lytvyn

Density and surface tension for Sn1-xNix(x = 0; 0,05; 0,1) have been measured by means of sessile drop method. Temperature dependences of these parameters as well as influence of Ni-atoms on density and surface tension were analyzed. It is shown that chemical ordering is one of the most important factor, determining surface properties and density.


Author(s):  
Anpalaki J. Ragavan ◽  
Cahit A. Evrensel ◽  
Peter Krumpe

Altered surface and viscoelastic material properties of mucus during respiratory diseases have a strong influence on its clearance by cilia and cough. Combined effects of the surface properties (contact angle and surface tension) and storage modulus with relatively unchanged viscosity on displacement of the simulated mucus aliquot during simulated cough through a model adult human trachea is investigated. For the mucus simulants used in this study contact angle and surface tension increase significantly as storage modulus increase while viscosity remains practically unchanged. Displacement of mucus simulant aliquots increased significantly with increasing storage modulus (and contact angle) at a given cough velocity in the range between 5 meters/second (m/s) and 30 m/s with duration 0.3 s. Results suggest that the interactive effects of elasticity and surface properties may help facilitate mucus displacement at low cough velocities.


2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-198
Author(s):  
Kunio TAKAHASHI ◽  
Yoji IGUCHI ◽  
Keiichiro HAMADA ◽  
HEMTHAVY Pasomphone ◽  
Shigeki SAITO

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-46
Author(s):  
Machiko Ikegami ◽  
Yotaro Agata ◽  
Tarek Elkady ◽  
Mikko Hallman ◽  
David Berry ◽  
...  

Natural sheep surfactant, rabbit surfactant, human surfactant, and surfactant TA were compared for in vitro surface properties and for responses of preterm lambs to treatment. Equivalent amounts of sheep, rabbit, and human surfactants were needed to lower the surface tension to less than 10 dynes/cm, whereas four times less surfactant TA similarly lowered the surface tension. Surface-spreading rates were similar for the surfactants. The surface adsorption of the batch of human surfactant tested was much slower than was adsorption of the other surfactants. Ventilation was significantly improved in all surfactant-treated lambs relative to the control lambs, indicating the general efficacy of the surfactant treatments. Overall, surfactant TA had the best in vitro characteristics, yet the preterm lambs treated at birth with surfactant TA had lower Po2 values and higher ventilatory requirements than did the sheep surfactant-treated lambs. The in vivo responses to rabbit surfactant were intermediate between the responses to sheep surfactant and to surfactant TA. Human surfactant resulted in the least effective clinical response. More of the phosphatidylcholine associated with human surfactant and surfactant TA was lost from the alveoli and lung tissue after four hours of ventilation than was lost from sheep or rabbit surfactant-treated lambs. More intravascular radiolabeled albumin leaked into the alveoli of the surfactant TA-treated lambs than sheep or rabbit surfactant-treated. lambs. The four surfactants also had different sensitivities to the effects on minimum surface tensions of the soluble proteins present in alveolar washes. The study demonstrates that the range of clinical responses was not predictable based on the in vitro surface properties that we measured. The surfactants behaved differently with respect to loss from the lungs and sensitivity to soluble proteins. Factors other than surface properties are important for the in vivo responses to surfactant treatments.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (34) ◽  
pp. eaba4330
Author(s):  
Olinka Ramírez-Soto ◽  
Vatsal Sanjay ◽  
Detlef Lohse ◽  
Jonathan T. Pham ◽  
Doris Vollmer

Colliding drops are encountered in everyday technologies and natural processes, from combustion engines and commodity sprays to raindrops and cloud formation. The outcome of a collision depends on many factors, including the impact velocity and the degree of alignment, and intrinsic properties like surface tension. Yet, little is known on binary impact dynamics of low-surface-tension drops on a low-wetting surface. We investigate the dynamics of an oil drop impacting an identical sessile drop sitting on a superamphiphobic surface. We observe five rebound scenarios, four of which do not involve coalescence. We describe two previously unexplored cases for sessile drop liftoff, resulting from drop-on-drop impact. Numerical simulations quantitatively reproduce the rebound scenarios and enable quantification of velocity profiles, energy transfer, and viscous dissipation. Our results illustrate how varying the offset from head-on alignment and the impact velocity results in controllable rebound dynamics for oil drop collisions on superamphiphobic surfaces.


1989 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 2039-2044 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. Mercurio ◽  
J. M. Fiascone ◽  
D. M. Lima ◽  
H. C. Jacobs

In vitro surface properties of pulmonary surfactant thought to be essential to its ability to increase pulmonary compliance include minimum surface tension less than 10 dyn/cm and large surface tension variability and hysteresis. We tested four surface-active agents (Tween 20, a detergent; and FC-100, FC-430, and FC-431, industrial fluorocarbons), all lacking these properties, for their ability to increase pulmonary compliance in surfactant-deficient premature rabbits. Fetal rabbits were delivered by cesarean section at 27 days (full term = 31 days) and injected via tracheostomy with 50% lactated Ringer solution, adult rabbit surfactant, or one of the four experimental agents. Dynamic compliance was measured using 1 h of mechanical ventilation followed by alveolar lavage. Each experimental agent produced a dynamic compliance significantly higher than 50% lactated Ringer solution and statistically equal to or greater than natural surfactant. Equilibrium surface tension of the agents and minimum and equilibrium surface tension of the alveolar washes each correlated with compliance (P less than 0.05). This suggests that some surface properties of pulmonary surfactant believed to be essential are not, although surface tension does seem to play a role in pulmonary compliance.


1998 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga V. Lopatko ◽  
Sandra Orgeig ◽  
Christopher B. Daniels ◽  
David Palmer

Lopatko, Olga V., Sandra Orgeig, Christopher B. Daniels, and David Palmer. Alterations in the surface properties of lung surfactant in the torpid marsupial Sminthopsis crassicaudata. J. Appl. Physiol. 84(1): 146–156, 1998.—Torpor changes the composition of pulmonary surfactant (PS) in the dunnart Sminthopsis crassicaudata [C. Langman, S. Orgeig, and C. B. Daniels. Am. J. Physiol. 271 ( Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 40): R437–R445, 1996]. Here we investigated the surface activity of PS in vitro. Five micrograms of phospholipid per centimeter squared surface area of whole lavage (from mice or from warm-active, 4-, or 8-h torpid dunnarts) were applied dropwise onto the subphase of a Wilhelmy-Langmuir balance at 20°C and stabilized for 20 min. After 4 h of torpor, the adsorption rate increased, and equilibrium surface tension (STeq), minimal surface tension (STmin), and the %area compression required to achieve STmin decreased, compared with the warm-active group. After 8 h of torpor, STmin decreased [from 5.2 ± 0.3 to 4.1 ± 0.3 (SE) mN/m]; %area compression required to achieve STmindecreased (from 43.4 ± 1.0 to 27.4 ± 0.8); the rate of adsorption decreased; and STeqincreased (from 26.3 ± 0.5 to 38.6 ± 1.3 mN/m). ST-area isotherms of warm-active dunnarts and mice at 20°C had a shoulder on compression and a plateau on expansion. These disappeared on the isotherms of torpid dunnarts. Samples of whole lavage (from warm-active and 8-h torpor groups) containing 100 μg phospholipid/ml were studied by using a captive-bubble surfactometer at 37°C. After 8 h of torpor, STmin increased (from 6.4 ± 0.3 to 9.1 ± 0.3 mN/m) and %area compression decreased in the 2nd (from 88.6 ± 1.7 to 82.1 ± 2.0) and 3rd (from 89.1 ± 0.8 to 84.9 ± 1.8) compression-expansion cycles, compared with warm-active dunnarts. ST-area isotherms of warm-active dunnarts at 37°C did not have a shoulder on compression. This shoulder appeared on the isotherms of torpid dunnarts. In conclusion, there is a strong correlation between in vitro changes in surface activity and in vivo changes in lipid composition of PS during torpor, although static lung compliance remained unchanged (see Langman et al. cited above). Surfactant from torpid animals is more active at 20°C and less active at 37°C than that of warm-active animals, which may represent a respiratory adaptation to low body temperatures of torpid dunnarts.


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