Surfactants at Interfaces and Thin Liquid Films
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2020) | Viewed by 26824
Special Issue Editors
Interests: surface chemistry; colloids systems; liquid films; coalescence; bubble attachment; hydrophobicity; adsorption; adhesion; multiphase flow; mass transfer; image analysis
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Interests: mineral processing; minerals engineering; flotation; physicochemistry of surfaces; colloids systems; hydrophobicity; minerals; surface properties; extractive metallurgy; leaching
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Thin liquid films, stabilized by surfactant adsorption layers, are the fundamental building blocks of any dispersed system with a liquid continuous phase. The stability of liquid films is a parameter of crucial importance for the properties of the dispersed system as a whole. Moreover, it controls the outcome of many important technological and industrial applications involving multiphase flows. One of the important examples of such processes is flotation separation, where the collision of gas bubbles with various interfaces, in the presence of reagents creating a favorable chemical environment, are the first fundamental step of the formation of bubble-particle aggregates and foam. We warmly invite you to contribute to the Special Issue “Surfactants at Interfaces and Thin Liquid Films”. Given the scientific scope of the journal, the topics of interest of this Special Issue should include the original papers related to basic and applied research on the physicochemical aspects of the flotation separation process, such as experimental and theoretical studies on the stability of liquid films (foam and wetting) under static and dynamic conditions, the kinetics of bubble attachment to solid surfaces, solid surface wettability, surfactant adsorption, bubble and drop interfaces, and the hydrodynamics of bubbles and drops in surfactant solution.
Dr. Jan Zawala
Dr. Przemyslaw B. Kowalczuk
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- liquid films
- flotation
- bubble attachment
- surfactants
- interface
- wettability
- particle
- bubble
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