Molecular dynamics simulations are reported for the evaporation of a liquid into vacuum, where a Lennard-Jones type fluid with truncated and shifted potential at 2.5σ is considered. Vacuum is enforced locally by particle deletion and the liquid is thermostated in its bulk so that heat flows to the planar interface driving stationary evaporation. The length of the non-thermostated transition reg...

A novel micromachined interface for airborne sample-to-liquid adsorption and droplet-to-liquid transfer was designed and fabricated. It enables a robust sheet liquid flow serving as an adsorption site. The interface was characterised for flow and pressure properties and tested successfully for the transfer/adsorption of different samples. A qualitative theoretical model of the device characteri...

Optical trapping of colloids at a liquid-liquid interface A. Caciagli, J. Kotar, D. Joshi, E. Eiser1 Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Optical tweezing is an established tool to examine interactions at the micro and nanometer level. Such forces are typically assessed by using an optically trapped particle as a probe. Since the size of an optical trap is usually of the...

A surface enhanced Raman scattering system to detect silver nanoparticle adsorption at the water|1,2-dichlorobenzene interface is reported. The Raman response as a function of distance on either side of the interface reveals a reproducible spatial variation, which is potential dependent for a number of adsorption and desorption cycles.

This Letter reports experimental results for partial coalescence when a drop merges with an interface. We find an intermediate range of drop sizes in which the merger is not complete but a daughter drop is left behind. This phenomenon is governed primarily by inertia and interfacial tension, and three regimes can be further delineated depending on the roles of viscosity and gravity. Scaling rel...

One of enduring problems of phospholipid adsorption at the interface between two immiscible electrolyte solutions (ITIES) has been the inability to determine and control the exact nature of the adsorbed monomolecular layer. In the present study, this problem has been overcome by the use of the well-known Langmuir-Blodgett technique. It has been shown that reproducible layers of known surface pr...

The localization kinetics of a regular block-copolymer of total length N and block size M at a selective liquid-liquid interface is studied in the limit of strong segregation between hydrophobic and polar segments in the chain. We propose a simple analytic theory based on scaling arguments which describes the relaxation of the initial coil into a flat-shaped layer for the cases of both Rouse an...

Dithiocarbamate chemistry is used as a crosslinking tool to fabricate FePt colloidal microcapsules which provide a versatile scaffold for "host-guest" recognition at the liquid-liquid interface.

The molecular-level organization of mixed and pure saturated symmetric chain 1,2-diacyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholines (PCs) adsorbed at a carbon tetrachloride-aqueous interface is explored by probing the hydrocarbon chain conformation within the adsorbed layer. PCs of the chain lengths found most frequently in biological systems, which in pure form are seen to form either very well-ordered or di...

We study the interface between a solid trapped within a bath of liquid by a suitably shaped non-uniform external potential. Such a potential may be constructed using lasers, external electric or magnetic fields or a surface template. We study a two dimensional case where a thin strip of solid, created in this way, is surrounded on either side by a bath of liquid with which it can easily exchang...