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  • Title: Unusual behavior of PEG/PPG/Pluronic interfaces studied by a spinning drop tensiometer.
    Author: Martin JD, Velankar SS.
    Journal: J Colloid Interface Sci; 2008 Jun 15; 322(2):669-74. PubMed ID: 18440544.
    Abstract:
    The effects of surfactants on the interfacial tension driven retraction of elongated drops were studied in a spinning drop tensiometer. Experiments were conducted on polypropylene glycol (PPG) drops suspended in polyethylene glycol (PEG), with Pluronic block copolymers as surfactants. Two unusual observations are reported here. In the first, initially-elongated drops generated at high rotational speed were allowed to retract by reducing the rotational speed. Pluronic-laden drops would not retract completely, but would instead maintain strongly nonspherical shapes indefinitely. We attribute such "nonretraction" to an interfacial yield stress induced by the Pluronic surfactant. In the second, drops being heated while spinning at a constant speed would elongate sharply at some temperature, and subsequently breakup. Such "autoextension" and breakup indicate complex nonmonotonic changes in interfacial tension with time during heating. We propose that autoextension occurs because at low temperature, interfacially-adsorbed surfactant is crystallized and hence trapped at the interface at a concentration far above equilibrium.
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