TY - JOUR
T1 - First-order wetting transition and line tension of hexadecane lens at air/water interface assisted by surfactant adsorption
AU - Matsubara, Hiroki
AU - Ikebe, Yosuke
AU - Ushijima, Yasutaka
AU - Takata, Youichi
AU - Takiue, Takanori
AU - Aratono, Makoto
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - A first-order transition from partial wetting to pseudo-partial wetting of hexadecane droplets on aqueous solutions of surfactant, hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide, has been investigated by using interfacial tensiometry and ellipsometry. A regular solution model was applied to calculate the surface free energy of the wetting film as a function of thickness and then the connection between calculated surface free energy profiles and line tension measured at the wetting transition was discussed based on the interface displacement model. The reversal of the sign of the line tension associated with the wetting transition was confirmed from both the experiment and the interface displacement model.
AB - A first-order transition from partial wetting to pseudo-partial wetting of hexadecane droplets on aqueous solutions of surfactant, hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide, has been investigated by using interfacial tensiometry and ellipsometry. A regular solution model was applied to calculate the surface free energy of the wetting film as a function of thickness and then the connection between calculated surface free energy profiles and line tension measured at the wetting transition was discussed based on the interface displacement model. The reversal of the sign of the line tension associated with the wetting transition was confirmed from both the experiment and the interface displacement model.
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U2 - 10.1246/bcsj.20100158
DO - 10.1246/bcsj.20100158
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77958452580
VL - 83
SP - 1198
EP - 1202
JO - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
JF - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
SN - 0009-2673
IS - 10
ER -