after designing and constructing a coalescence cell, drop/interface coalescence phenomenon was studied in the absence and presence of single surfactant.two surface active agents of sodium dodecyl sulfate and 1-decanol were used. distilled water was used as dispersed phase. toluene, n-heptane and aqueous 60% (v/v) of glycerol were selected as continuous phases, separately. it was found that the ...

In the present work, a stainless steel wire was etched by hydrochloric acid during a chemical etching process. The obtained black layer on the surface of the fiber was used as sorbent for extraction of trace amount of phthalates in the aqueous samples by solid phase microextraction. New fiber efficiency was investigated using a home-made solid-phase microextraction (SPME) device and gas chr...

We demonstrate that the phase transition from columnar-hexagonal liquid crystal to hexagonal-crystalline solid falls into an unusual universality class, which in three dimensions allows for both discontinuous transitions as well as continuous transitions, characterized by a single set of exponents. We show by a renormalization group calculation (to first order in =4-d) that the critical exponen...

A method for optimization of extraction of volatile compounds in Chardonnay wine was developed using headspace-solid phase microextraction (HS-SPME) and gas chromatography coupled with triple quadrupole tandem mass spectrometry (GCMS/MS). Optimization of the HS-SPME conditions, temperature (T, ̊C) and extraction time (t, minutes), was carried out using a 2 factorial central composite rotational...