Molecular simulations of surface forces and film rupture in oil/water/surfactant systems

We use dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) and molecular models to simulate interacting oil/water/surfactant interfaces. The system comprises sections of two emulsion droplets separated by a film. The film is in equilibrium with a continuous phase, in analogy with the surface force apparatus. This i...

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Veröffentlicht in:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1992. - 20(2004), 26 vom: 21. Dez., Seite 11583-93
1. Verfasser: Rekvig, Live (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Hafskjold, Bjørn, Smit, Berend
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2004
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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520 |a We use dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) and molecular models to simulate interacting oil/water/surfactant interfaces. The system comprises sections of two emulsion droplets separated by a film. The film is in equilibrium with a continuous phase, in analogy with the surface force apparatus. This is achieved by combining DPD with a Monte Carlo scheme to simulate a muVT ensemble. The setup enables the computation of surface forces as a function of the distance between the two interfaces, as well as the detection of film rupture. We studied monolayers of nonionic model surfactants at different densities and compared oil-water-oil and water-oil-water emulsion films. Between surfactant monolayers facing each other tails-on (water-oil-water films), we observed repulsive forces due to the steric interaction between overlapping hydrophobic tails. The repulsion increases with surfactant density. Conversely, no such repulsion is observed between surfactant monolayers facing each other heads-on. Instead, the film ruptures, the monolayers merge, and a channel forms between the two droplet phases. Film rupture can also be induced in the water-oil-water films by forcing the interfaces together. The separation at rupture increases for oil-water-oil films and decreases for water-oil-water films when the surfactant density increases. The results are in qualitative agreement with existing theories of emulsion stability in creams, in particular with the channel nucleation theory based on the natural curvature of surfactants 
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