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Effects of interplay of nanoparticles, surfactants and base fluid on the surface tension of nanocolloids

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A systematically designed study has been conducted to understand and demarcate the degree of contribution by the constituting elements to the surface tension of nanocolloids. The effects of elements such as surfactants, particles and the combined effects of these on the surface tension of these complex fluids are studied employing the pendant drop shape analysis method by fitting the Young-Laplace equation. Only the particle has shown an increase in the surface tension with particle concentration in a polar medium like DI water, whereas only a marginal effect of particles on surface tension in weakly polar mediums like glycerol and ethylene glycol has been demonstrated. Such behaviour has been attributed to the enhanced desorption of particles to the interface and a theory has been presented to quantify this. The combined particle and surfactant effect on the surface tension of a complex nanofluid system showed a decreasing behaviour with respect to the particle and surfactant concentration with a considerably feeble effect of particle concentration. This combined colloidal system recorded a surface tension value below the surface tension of an aqueous surfactant system at the same concentration, which is a counterintuitive observation as only the particle results in an increase in the surface tension and only the surfactant results in a decrease in the surface tension. The possible physical mechanism behind such an anomaly happening at the complex fluid air interface has been explained. Detailed analyses based on thermodynamic, mechanical and chemical equilibrium of the constituents and their adsorption-desorption characteristics as extracted from the Gibbs adsorption analysis have been provided. The present paper conclusively explains several physical phenomena observed, yet hitherto unexplained, in the case of the surface tension of such complex fluids by segregating the individual contributions of each component of the colloidal system.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 600036, Chennai, India

    A. R. Harikrishnan, Sateesh Gedupudi & Sarit K. Das

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, 140001, Rupnagar, India

    Purbarun Dhar, Prabhat K. Agnihotri & Sarit K. Das

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Harikrishnan, A.R., Dhar, P., Agnihotri, P.K. et al. Effects of interplay of nanoparticles, surfactants and base fluid on the surface tension of nanocolloids. Eur. Phys. J. E 40, 53 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2017-11541-5

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