- Title
- Exploring the impact of particle material properties on electrostatic liquid marble formation
- Creator
- Thomas, Casey A.; Munday, Holly; Lobel, Benjamin T.; Asaumi, Yuta; Fujii, Syuji; Ireland, Peter M.; Wanless, Erica J.; Webber, Grant B.
- Relation
- ARC.DP170100578 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP170100578
- Relation
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part C Vol. 124, Issue 48, p. 26258-26267
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c07625
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Specific particle material properties such as conductivity, cohesion, and density have been neither directly nor thoroughly studied regarding particle behavior in an electrostatic field and the follow-on impact this has on the electrostatic formation of liquid marbles. In this method, an applied electric field drives the extraction of particles from a bed and their transport to a pendent, earthed water droplet. Herein, prior studies of electrostatic formation of particle-stabilized droplets and liquid marbles have been expanded to compare the impact of density using the spherical polystyrene (PS) latex and glass particles of similar shape and size. The addition of thin polymer shells to both samples, which increases the conductivity and cohesion, allows the interplay of these three properties to be examined systematically. Separation distances between the particle bed and the droplet from which particles can initially be extracted increase as the negative applied potential increases. Initial extraction distances of both core particles were found to be similar, ~1.5 mm at 2.0 kV applied potential, despite the greater density, and thus mass of the glass particles. It is demonstrated that this is a result of competitive interactions between particle density, conductivity, and cohesion; PS is less conductive and more cohesive than glass. Introducing a polypyrrole shell increases the separation distance for extraction to approximately 4 mm for PS core particles but has little impact on glass core particles, demonstrating that for particles with constant conductivity and cohesion reducing the density facilitates extraction. Modeling and quantification of extraction threshold forces for each particle type were undertaken, utilizing the measurement of a radially symmetric area of the particle bed from which particles were observed in the initial extraction stages. This measurement highlighted that it is significantly easier to extract PS compared to glass, with particles extracted from a region in the bed up to 5 times the width in the PS case. Particle density is hypothesized to not be the determining factor in the stabilization of the coated liquid droplets; therefore, the interplay of a multitude of physical properties must be considered when determining the suitability of particulate materials for this electrostatic method.
- Subject
- electrostatics; liquids; amorphous materials; electrical conductivity; extraction
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1471357
- Identifier
- uon:48658
- Identifier
- ISSN:1932-7447
- Rights
- This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part C, ©2020 American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c07625.
- Language
- eng
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