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Effect of Impurities in Description of Surface Nanobubbles
Surface nanobubbles emerging at solid-liquid interfaces of submerged
hydrophobic surfaces show extreme stability and very small (gas-side) contact
angles. In a recent study Ducker (W. A. Ducker, Langmuir 25, 8907 (2009).)
conjectured that these effects may arise from the presence of impurities at the
air-water interface of the nanobubbles. In this paper we present a quantitative
analysis of this hypothesis by estimating the dependence of the contact angle
and the Laplace pressure on the fraction of impurity coverage at the liquid-gas
interface. We first develop a general analytical framework to estimate the
effect of impurities (ionic or non-ionic) in lowering the surface tension of a
given air-water interface. We then employ this model to show that the
(gas-side) contact angle and the Laplace pressure across the nanobubbles indeed
decrease considerably with an increase in the fractional coverage of the
impurities, though still not sufficiently small to account for the observed
surface nanobubble stability. The proposed model also suggests the dependencies
of the Laplace pressure and the contact angle on the type of impurity
Volumetric Properties of the Mixture Furan C4H4O + C8H10 Ethylbenzene (LB1937, VMSD1212)
Volumetric Properties of the Mixture Furan C4H4O + C8H10 1,2-Dimethylbenzene (LB1938, VMSD1212)
Effect of temperature and solvent compositions on the aggregation and thermodynamic properties of the polyvinyl alcohol + tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide mixture in aqua-organic mixed media
Influence of organic solvents and temperature on the micellization of conventional and gemini surfactants: a conductometric study
2D like photonic crystal using In2O3-SiO x heterostructure nanocolumn arrays and humidity sensing
Graphene-Iodine Nanocomposites: Highly Potent Bacterial Inhibitors that are Bio-compatible with Human Cells
Graphene-composites, capable of inhibiting bacterial growth which is also bio-compatible with human cells have been highly sought after. Here we report for the first time the preparation of new graphene-iodine nano-composites via electrostatic interactions between positively charged graphene derivatives and triiodide anions. The resulting composites were characterized by X-ray photoemission spectroscopy, UV-spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and Scanning electron microscopy. The antibacterial potential of these graphene-iodine composites against Klebsiella pneumonia, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Proteus mirobilis, Staphylococcus aureus, and E. coli was investigated. In addition, the cytotoxicity of the nanocomposite with human cells [human white blood cells (WBC), HeLa, MDA-MB-231, Fibroblast (primary human keratinocyte) and Keratinocyte (immortalized fibroblast)], was assessed. DGO (Double-oxidizes graphene oxide) was prepared by the additional oxidation of GO (graphene oxide). This generates more oxygen containing functional groups that can readily trap more H(+), thus generating a positively charged surface area under highly acidic conditions. This step allowed bonding with a greater number of anionic triiodides and generated the most potent antibacterial agent among graphene-iodine and as-made povidone-iodine (PVP-I) composites also exhibited nontoxic to human cells culture. Thus, these nano-composites can be used to inhibit the growth of various bacterial species. Importantly, they are also very low-cytotoxic to human cells culture