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Zuo M, Song Q, Hajiyeva N, Lerch H, Bolten J, Plachetka U, Lemme MC, Schönherr H. Effect of Particle Size on the Orientation and Order of Assemblies of Functionalized Microscale Cubes Formed at the Water/Air Interface. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2023. [PMID: 37310799 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c00518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The impact of the particle size and wettability on the orientation and order of assemblies obtained by self-organization of functionalized microscale polystyrene cubes at the water/air interface is reported. An increase in the hydrophobicity of 10- and 5-μm-sized self-assembled monolayer-functionalized polystyrene cubes, as assessed by independent water contact angle measurements, led to a change of the preferred orientation of the assembled cubes at the water/air interface from face-up to edge-up and further to vertex-up, irrespective of microcube size. This tendency is consistent with our previous studies with 30-μm-sized cubes. However, the transitions among these orientations and the capillary force-induced structures, which change from flat plate to tilted linear and further to close-packed hexagonal arrangements, were observed to shift to larger contact angles for smaller cube size. Likewise, the order of the formed aggregates decreased significantly with decreasing cube size, which is tentatively attributed to the small ratio of inertial force to capillary force for smaller cubes in disordered aggregates, which results in more difficulties to reorient in the stirring process. Experiments with small fractions of larger cubes added to the water/air interface increased the order of smaller homo-aggregates to values similar to neat 30 μm cube assemblies. Hence, collisions of larger cubes or aggregates are shown to play a decisive role in breaking metastable structures to approach a global energy minimum assembly.
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- Mengdi Zuo
- Physical Chemistry I and Research Center of Micro and Nanochemistry and (Bio)Technology (Cμ), Department of Chemistry and Biology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57076 Siegen, Germany
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- Physical Chemistry I and Research Center of Micro and Nanochemistry and (Bio)Technology (Cμ), Department of Chemistry and Biology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57076 Siegen, Germany
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- Physical Chemistry I and Research Center of Micro and Nanochemistry and (Bio)Technology (Cμ), Department of Chemistry and Biology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57076 Siegen, Germany
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- AMO GmbH, Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mikro- und Optoelektronik mbH, Otto-Blumenthal-Straße 25, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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- AMO GmbH, Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mikro- und Optoelektronik mbH, Otto-Blumenthal-Straße 25, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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- AMO GmbH, Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mikro- und Optoelektronik mbH, Otto-Blumenthal-Straße 25, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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- AMO GmbH, Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mikro- und Optoelektronik mbH, Otto-Blumenthal-Straße 25, 52074 Aachen, Germany
- Chair of Electronic Devices, RWTH Aachen University, Otto-Blumenthal-Straße 2, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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- Physical Chemistry I and Research Center of Micro and Nanochemistry and (Bio)Technology (Cμ), Department of Chemistry and Biology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57076 Siegen, Germany
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Song Q, Ogiemwonyi CE, Zuo M, Schönherr H. Investigation of the Orientation and Assembly of Functionalized Microcubes at the Oil-Water Interface. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2023; 39:7388-7395. [PMID: 37192464 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c00533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The dependence of the preferred orientation of polystyrene microcubes on surface hydrophobicity at the water/hexadecane interface is reported. Similar to the water/air interfaces, the microcubes were shown to reside at the water/hexadecane interface with three distinct orientations: face-up, edge-up, and vertex-up. Concomitantly, ordered aggregates with flat plate, tilted linear, and close-packed hexagonal structures were formed, driven by capillary force. With increasing the hydrophobicity of five sides of the cubes, the preferential microcube orientation at the water/hexadecane interface changed sequentially from face-up to edge-up, to vertex-up, then back to edge-up, and to face-up. This dependence of the preferential microcube orientation on surface hydrophobicity at the water/hexadecane interface differs from that observed at the water/air interface, where the preferential orientation changed only from face-up to edge-up, then to vertex-up, as surface hydrophobicity increased. In addition, preformed microcube assemblies at the water/air interface could be dynamically reconfigured by replacing the air phase with hexadecane under stirring.
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- Qimeng Song
- Physical Chemistry I and Research Center of Micro and Nanochemistry and (Bio)Technology (Cμ), Department of Chemistry and Biology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, Siegen 57076, Germany
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- Physical Chemistry I and Research Center of Micro and Nanochemistry and (Bio)Technology (Cμ), Department of Chemistry and Biology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, Siegen 57076, Germany
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- Physical Chemistry I and Research Center of Micro and Nanochemistry and (Bio)Technology (Cμ), Department of Chemistry and Biology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, Siegen 57076, Germany
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- Physical Chemistry I and Research Center of Micro and Nanochemistry and (Bio)Technology (Cμ), Department of Chemistry and Biology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, Siegen 57076, Germany
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Davies T, Raufaste C. Effect of gravity on the orientation and detachment of cubic particles adsorbed at soap film or liquid interfaces. SOFT MATTER 2021; 17:6964-6971. [PMID: 34251006 DOI: 10.1039/d1sm00793a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We investigate the interaction that occurs between a light solid cube falling under gravity and a horizontal soap film that is pinned to a circular ring. We observe in both experiments and quasi-static simulations that the final orientation of a cube that becomes entrapped by a soap film is strongly dependent on the Bond number. A cube is rotated by a soap film into one of three main orientations in a process that is driven by energy minimisation. The likelihood of observing each of these final orientations is shown to depend on the Bond number, and the most energetically favourable orientation depends on the terminal height reached by the cube. We also find a critical value for the Bond number, above which a cube is no longer supported by a soap film and detachment occurs, to be less than one.
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- Tudur Davies
- Department of Mathematics, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3BZ, UK.
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- Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS UMR 7010, Institut de Physique de Nice, Parc Valrose, 06100 Nice, France and Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), 75005 Paris, France
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Vinay TV, Varanakkottu SN. Separation of Floating Oil Drops Based on Drop-Liquid Substrate Interfacial Tension. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2019; 35:10596-10600. [PMID: 31318559 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b01829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Though various strategies exist for the transport of oil drops suspended on a liquid substrate, selective manipulation of different kinds of drops based on their respective characteristics remains a challenge. In practice, it is possible to have multiple drops having different wetting states with the liquid substrate, whose separation is desired. In this work, we exploit curvature-induced capillary forces for the selective manipulation (transport as well as separation) of oil droplets based on their interfacial tension (IFT) with the underlying liquid substrate. To demonstrate this, we have selected two oils having different IFTs with the aqueous liquid substrate and tuned their curvature-induced capillary interaction (inward or outward from the source) by controlled addition of the surfactant. We experimentally realize three droplet manipulation regimes: repulsion, attraction, and separation regime. In the repulsion and attraction regimes, both the drops behave in a similar manner. Strikingly, in the separation regime, drops can be effectively separated based on their IFT; low IFT droplets are attracted toward the source, while high IFT droplets do the reverse.
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- Thamarasseril Vijayan Vinay
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Department of Physics , National Institute of Technology Calicut , Kozhikode , 673601 , India
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Department of Physics , National Institute of Technology Calicut , Kozhikode , 673601 , India
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