Intrinsic structure of hydrophobic surfaces: The oil-water interface

F Bresme, E Chacón, P Tarazona, K Tay - Physical review letters, 2008 - APS
… surfaces, as expected in a typical drying structure. We find that the intrinsic structure of
water next to the oil phase is remarkably similar to the bare water-vapor interface. …

Surface structure of sodium dodecyl sulfate surfactant and oil at the oil-in-water droplet liquid/liquid interface: a manifestation of a nonequilibrium surface state

HB De Aguiar, ML Strader, AGF de Beer… - The journal of physical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
… the oil has very few. Our spectra are interpreted to originate from a surface structure with oil
… The SDS headgroup is surrounded by water molecules. The SDS alkyl tail is in a disordered …

Micro-nano surface structure construction and hydrophobic modification to prepare efficient oil-water separation melamine formaldehyde foam

X Wang, Z Han, Y Liu, Q Wang - Applied Surface Science, 2020 - Elsevier
… red Ⅱ was involved in the oil-water mixture (oil/water weight ratio: 5/6). The … surface wettability
is vital for the oil/water separation of absorbents and it is closely dependent on the surface

Recent advances in femtosecond laser-induced surface structuring for oilwater separation

AS Alnaser, SA Khan, RA Ganeev, E Stratakis - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
… volume is adsorbed by the surface structures in air, but when an oil droplet is placed on the
surface while it is immersed in water, it exhibits a high contact angle for oil. This is explained …

Surface structure and properties of plant seed oil bodies

JT Tzen, AH Huang - The Journal of cell biology, 1992 - rupress.org
… Based on the available information, we propose a model of the structure of an oil body. …
, presumably of a layer ofPL and proteins with associated water molecules, and dissolve the …

Oil/water separation with selective superantiwetting/superwetting surface materials

Z Chu, Y Feng, S Seeger - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… for the separation of oil/water-free mixtures and … to oil/water separation, we describe the
principles of materials with selective oil/water absorption and outline recent advances in oil/water

Super water-and oil-repellent surfaces resulting from fractal structure

S Shibuichi, T Yamamoto, T Onda, K Tsujii - Journal of Colloid and Interface …, 1998 - Elsevier
… The surface structure of anodically oxidized surface was observed by a field emission …
Pt–Ag was carefully evaporated onto the sample surface. The surface structure was observed at …

Integration or segregation: how do molecules behave at oil/water interfaces?

FG Moore, GL Richmond - Accounts of chemical research, 2008 - ACS Publications
… Experimentally, surface vibrational sum frequency spectroscopy (VSFS) is … water molecules,
and from this we derive an initial picture of how the organic and water molecules structure, …

Comparisons of the structure of water at neat oil/water and air/water interfaces as determined by vibrational sum frequency generation

DE Gragson, GL Richmond - Langmuir, 1997 - ACS Publications
… air/water interface. We find that at the oil/water interface the prevailing structure of the
water molecules is a tetrahedral arrangement much like the structure of ice, while at the air/water

Structure and interactions of surfactant-covered surfaces in nonaqueous (oil-surfactant-water) media

YL Chen, Z Xu, J Israelachvili - Langmuir, 1992 - ACS Publications
… These structural changes alter the range, magnitude, and sometimes even the sign of the …
oil. We describe our results on the changes of and correlations between the surface structures