Measuring accurately liquid and tissue surface tension with a compression plate tensiometer

Measuring accurately liquid and tissue surface tension with a compression plate tensiometer.

Apparent tissue surface tension allows the quantification of cell-cell cohesion and was reported to be a powerful indicator for the cellular rearrangements that take place during embryonic development or for cancer progression. The measurement is realized with a parallel compression plate tensiometer using the capillary laws. Although it was introduced more than a decade ago, it is based on var...

Density and Temperature Dependencies of Liquid Surface Tension

In this paper the density and temperature dependencies of surface tension are investigated. Using the Lennard-Jones (12,6), as an effective pair interaction potential, a linear expression is derived for isotherms of g /r2  versus r2 for some normal and ChloroFluoroCarbons (CFCs)</...

Measuring Surface Tension with Faraday Waves

A New Apparatus for Measuring Surface Tension

Surface tension is probably one of the most difficult phenomena to measure. Although a great deal of ingenuity has been spent for almost a century in devising accurate techniques, the figures obtained deviate more from each other for the same substance, according to different authors, than any other constant characterizing the substance. I t is well ,known tha t the two classes of methods of me...

Surface tension helps a tongue grab liquid.

C apitalizing on the opportunities presented by the surface tension of aqueous liquids against air shows natural selection at its most creative. The paper in PNAS by Rico-Guevara and Rubega (1) describes how protruded hummingbird tongues curl lengthwise into a pair of tubes containing nectar. As a tongue contacts nectar on its lower surface or is withdrawn from full submersion, the surface tens...