Recent advances in experimental techniques for investigating aerosol surface tension

A Bain - Aerosol Science and Technology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The small size and contactless environment of aerosol droplets results in unique surface
compositions compared to macroscopic solutions. The large surface-area-to-volume ratio …

Vibration and jumping of ferrofluid marbles under an initial magnetic perturbation

M Mohammadrashidi, P Azizian, MA Bijarchi… - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
Liquid marbles are being promoted as a replacement for conventional droplets in digital
microfluidics. Liquid marbles can be remotely controlled by an external magnetic field if …

Volatile surfactants: Characterization and areas of application

LA Tsarkova, TD Gurkov - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Amphiphilic aroma molecules, representatives of fragrance molecules, are introduced as
dynamic volatile surfactants. Surface tension of their aqueous solutions proves to be a …

Numerical implementation of three-dimensional vectorial complex ray model and application to rainbow scattering of spheroidal drops

Q Duan, FRA Onofri, X Han, KF Ren - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The rainbow patterns of oblate spheroidal drops have been observed in experiments nearly
forty years ago [Nature312, 529 (1984) 10.1038/312529a0]. However, the prediction for …

Anti-noise and denoising performance of global rainbow processing

W Peng, C Li, T Li, L Huang, N Li, C Weng - Journal of Quantitative …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study simulated and experimentally evaluates the effect of signal noise of 5–60 dB on
the inversion accuracy of the global rainbow signals of droplets with three typical size …

Rainbow refractometry using partial rainbow signals

C Li, W Peng, Y Kang, X Fan, X Huang, N Li… - Optics & Laser …, 2023 - Elsevier
Rainbow refractometry can offer simultaneous measurement of refractive index and size of
droplets and has recently undergone interesting developments in spray measurement …

Planar rainbow refractometry

C Li, Q Lv, N Li, Y Wu, X Wu, C Weng, C Tropea - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Rainbow refractometry has been used in the past to measure size and refractive index of
spherical particles, typically droplets in a spray. In the present study, conventional optical …

Monitoring and identifying pendant droplets in microbottle resonators

Z Wang, X Zhang, Q Zhang, Y Chen, Y Yang… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Optofluidic resonators are capable of characterizing various fluidic media. Here, we propose
an optofluidic microbottle resonator (OFMBR) that is applied to generate pendant droplets …

Measurement of interacting ethanol droplets evaporation at moderately elevated temperature and pressure using phase rainbow refractometry

Q Lv, Y Wu, X Wang, L Zeng, X Wu - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2022 - Elsevier
Evaporation characteristics of interacting fuel droplets under the joint effect of ambient
pressure, temperature and droplet size and spacing are critical to combustor design and …

Dual-wavelength extinction rainbow refractometry for in-situ characterization of colloidal droplets

C Li, Q Lv, N Li, Y Wu, X Wu, C Weng, C Tropea - Powder Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Considerable interest and demand exists in multi-parameter characterization of colloidal
droplets. However, an optical in-situ characterization of such droplets is a particular …