Characterization of Nanostructuring Effects at Solid Liquid Interfaces

Nanostructuring of liquids and sorption layers has a very important influence on the behavior of solid/liquid disperse systems and processes at the solid/liquid interface. Studies in this area often employ very sophisticated methods of characterization, i.e. surface force measurements. Analytical centrifugation is a relatively simple but efficient alternative approach. The LUMiFuge analytical centrifuge can be used with high precision to determine sediment height as a function of centrifugal acceleration (pressure range approximately 500 - 50000 N/m2). It has been shown that the packing and compression behavior of mono-disperse silica suspensions in binary solvent mixtures of different alkanols with cyclohexane can be classified and differences quantified..  ......

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