Abstract
We directly measure, for the first time, disjoining pressure isotherms for asymmetric oil/aqueous surfactant/gas (i.e., pseudoemulsion) films using a modified version of the porous-plate technique first developed by Mysels in conjunction with thin-film interferometry. Dynamic film-thinning experiments are also performed on individual foam and pseudoemulsion films. At SDS surfactant concentrations above the critical micelle concentration (CMC) (0.1 M SDS), the pesudoemulsion films exhibit the same step-wise layer thinning observed in foam films under similar conditions. Further, we conduct dynamic thinning experiments on solid/liquid/gas systems and show that aqueous 0.2 M CTAB films sandwiched between glass and air also display discrete thinning transitions. All of these stratification transitions arise from oscillations in the disjoining pressure isotherm, generated by amphiphilic structuring within the film.
For 0.1 M SDS dedecane/air pesudoemuslion films, the slope and peak height of the disjoining-pressure oscillations increase with each subsequent amphiphilic layer as film thickness decreases. Magnitudes of the structural forces are low (<100 Pa) but the length scale of the oscillations is large (∼10 nm) and rathe far reaching (∼50 nm). Moreover, for 0.1 M SDS solutions, the capillary pressures associated with film rupture are significantly lower for pseudoemulsion films (∼0.1 kPa) when compared to foam films (∼15 kPa) at equivalent conditions. Taken together, our dynamic thinning and equilibrium disjoining pressure measurements indicate that stratification in 0.1 M SDS films has little effect on both kinetic and thermodynamic films stability.
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Bergeron, V., Radke, C.J. Disjoining pressure and stratification in asymmetric thin-liquid films. Colloid Polym Sci 273, 165–174 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00654014
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