surface rheology

Surface rheology is a description of the rheological properties of a free surface. When perfectly pure, the interface between fluids usually displays only surface tension.{{Cite journal |last=Lee |first=Junghaeng |last2=Kim |first2=Taehoon |last3=Jang |first3=Hyunkyu |last4=Kwon |first4=Mikyung |last5=Cho |first5=Kwang Soo |date=2023-02-01 |title=Rheological models for fluid mixtures: Theoretical foundation and linear viscoelasticity |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377025722001914 |journal=Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics |volume=312 |pages=104972 |doi=10.1016/j.jnnfm.2022.104972 |issn=0377-0257|url-access=subscription }} The stress within a fluid interface can be affected by the adsorption of surfactants in several ways:

Change in the surface concentration of surfactants when the in-plane flow tends to alter the surface area of the interface (Gibbs' elasticity).{{Citation |last=Langevin |first=Dominique |title=Thin Liquid Films |date=2020 |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-55681-5_2 |work=Emulsions, Microemulsions and Foams |pages=71–127 |access-date=2023-11-28 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-55681-5_2 |isbn=978-3-030-55680-8|url-access=subscription }}
Adsorption/desorption of the surfactants to/from the interface.{{Cite journal |last=Bergfreund |first=Jotam |last2=Siegenthaler |first2=Sarina |last3=Lutz-Bueno |first3=Viviane |last4=Bertsch |first4=Pascal |last5=Fischer |first5=Peter |date=2021-06-08 |title=Surfactant Adsorption to Different Fluid Interfaces |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c00668 |journal=Langmuir |language=en |volume=37 |issue=22 |pages=6722–6727 |doi=10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c00668 |issn=0743-7463|doi-access=free |hdl=20.500.11850/490814 |hdl-access=free }}

Importance of surface rheology

The mechanical properties (rheology) of dispersed media such as liquid foams and emulsions is strongly affected by surface rheology. Indeed, when they consist of two (or more) fluid phases, deforming the material implies deforming the constitutive phases (bubbles, drops) and thus their interfaces.

The measurement of surface rheological properties is described by storage and loss moduli. In the case of a linear response to a sinusoidal deformation, the loss modulus is the product of the viscosity by the frequency. One of the difficulties of surface rheology measurements come from the fact that the adsorbed layers are usually rather compressible (at the difference of bulk fluids which are essentially incompressible), and both compression and shear parameters should be determined. This determination requires different type of rheometric instruments, for instance oscillating drops for the compression properties and oscillating bicones for the shear properties.{{Cite web |date=2019-10-01 |title=4.3: Rheology |url=https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Organic_Chemistry/Polymer_Chemistry_(Schaller)/04%3A_Polymer_Properties/4.03%3A_Rheology |access-date=2023-11-28 |website=Chemistry LibreTexts |language=en}} These two methods allow investigating the variation of the parameters upon the amplitude of the deformation. The responses of adsorbed layers to deformations are frequently non-linear, making this variation measurement relevant to rheological studies.

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