Erik Braudeau*, Gaghik Hovhannissian, Amjad T. Assi and Rabi H. Mohtar* 1 Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar 2 Pédologie Hydrostructurale, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement France Nord, Institut de Recherche Pour le Développement, Bondy, France 3 Unité Mixte de Recherche 242, Institut d’Ecologie et des Sciences de l’Environnement de Paris, I...

When particles adsorb at a fluid/fluid interface at a sufficiently high concentration, the interface loses mobility and displays solidlike characteristics, a phenomenon called "interfacial jamming". Jamming can arrest interfacial tension-driven morphological coarsening in liquid/liquid or gas/liquid systems and therefore stabilize two phase morphologies with unusual interfacial shapes, for exam...

for determining sugar beet water requirements, this work was conducted at the  agricultural research station of torog in mashhad for 3 years. crop water requirement was measured by a drainage type lysimeter with dimension of 2*2*1 m. in order to reduce side effects, an area about 1600 m2 around the lysimeter (as a guard) was cultivated with sugar beet. soil water content was measured by tensiom...

This paper investigates the effect of soil moisture evaporation rate on water retention curve (SWRC) clays obtained using high-capacity tensiometer (HCT) technique and following continuous drying (dynamic) method. SWRC measurements, with without control, were carried out reconstituted London clay specimens 12 performance-improved HCTs recently developed at University Warwick. Furthermore, HCTs'...

Attaching polysaccharides to the surface of nanoparticles offers the possibility of modifying the physicochemical and biological properties of the core particles. The surface of lipid nanocapsules (LNCs) was modified by post-insertion of amphiphilic lipochitosan (LC) or lipodextran (LD). Modelling of these LNCs by the drop tensiometer technique revealed that the positively charged LC made the L...