Surface force methylated surfaces

Several properties of the filler are important to the compounder (279). Properties that are frequentiy reported by fumed sihca manufacturers include the acidity of the filler, nitrogen adsorption, oil absorption, and particle size distribution (280,281). The adsorption techniques provide a measure of the surface area of the filler, whereas oil absorption is an indication of the stmcture of the filler (282). Measurement of the sdanol concentration is critical, and some techniques that are commonly used in the industry to estimate this parameter are the methyl red absorption and methanol wettabihty (273,274,277) tests. Other techniques include various spectroscopies, such as diffuse reflectance infrared spectroscopy (drift), inverse gas chromatography (igc), photoacoustic ir, nmr, Raman, and surface forces apparatus (277,283—290). 

The charged species were in all cases found to concentrate at the surface of the liquid under vacuum conditions. Little surface separation of the anions and cations was observed. For the [PFg] and [BFJ ions, the cation ring was found to prefer a perpendicular orientation to the surface, with the nitrogen atoms closest to the surface. An increase in the alkyl chain length caused the cation to rotate so that the alkyl chain moved into the bulk liquid, away from the surface, forcing the methyl group closer to the surface. For halide ionic liquids, the data were less clear and the cation could be fitted to a number of orientations. 

Measurements have been made, in the AFM contact mode, of both chemical and mechanical local attractive or adhesive forces of model substrates. Assuming that the main technical uncertainties have been listed and minimized, surface force measurements were first performed on chemically modified silicon substrates (grafted with hydroxyl, amine, methyl, and ester functional groups). The surface chemistry contribution (in particular, its hydrophilic features) is dominant in the measurement of the adhesion force. A linear relationship has been obtained between the van der Waals component of the thermodynamic work of adhesion and the surface energy of the silicon grafted substrates. 

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For hydrophilic surfaces in water and for methylated surfaces in hydrocarbon, the cohesive force is very weak. It is on the brink of what can be experimentally determined, and the value of ViF does not exceed several units of 10 mJ/m. ... 

In the case of methylated surfaces in a nonpolar liquid medium, the interactions are also stipulated only by the dispersion components of the cohesive forces, but the situation in this case is principally different. The cohesive force for macroscopic millimeter-sized beads is on the brink of what is experimentally measurable, and the corresponding value of the free energy of interaction does not exceed 10 or even 10 mJ/m. This means that /lOj w 0,2 = Osl, and these measurements by... 

In contrast to the methylated surface/air case, in this system, the equilibrium state in the contact can t be estimated, along with the possibility of an incomplete screening of the nondispersion forces and a possible surface nonideality. It makes no difference whether the residual film is modeled as a saturated monolayer, a unsaturated monolayer, or a polylayer of a liquid phase. Consequently, the value of Of is low, not because the contact is ideal, but because the value of o is low. 

FIGURE 2.17 (a) Schematic illustration of the reversible behavior of the adsorbed layer in the case of nonspecific adsorption from an aqueous solution on a methylated surface and (b) in the case of specific adsorption (chemisorption) on polar surface from a nonpolar hydrocarbon. In the second case, a critical compression force needs to be applied in order to cause (with some probability) rupture and the displacement of the adsorption layer. (Redrawn from Shchukin, E.D., Colloid J 59, 248,1997.)... 

All of the illustrated examples correspond to equilibrium and reversible conditions. The response of the adsorption layer formed at the hydrophobic methylated surfaces to the applied compression is schematically illustrated in Figure 2.17. The layer is displaced from the contact zone as the particles are compressed against each other and returns when the particles are pulled apart. The situation is principally different in the case of polar particles and adsorption from nonpolar media, such as in the case of amines on glass spheres. The chemisorption that takes place leads to the formation of an adsorbed layer that has its own mechanical strength, in which case a critical compressive force, needs to be applied for the adsorption layer to rupture and to be displaced from the contact zone (Figures 2.17b and 2.18). 

FIGURE 4.26 Schematic illustration of the reversible behavior of the adsorption layer under conditions of reversible adsorption from an aqueous medium on methylated surface (a), and under the condition of specific adsorption (chemisorption) from a hydrocarbon medium on the polar surface (b). In the latter case, there is a critical compressive force that one needs to apply in order to rupture the adsorption layer. 

A variation on the amplitude modulation technique was also used to measure oscillatory surface forces with increased sensitivity in a branched hydrocarbon, squalene. In this technique, the sample was oscillated with low amplitude (c. 1 A), and both the cantilever static and dynamic (induced oscillation from a change in the tip-sample force gradient) deflection was measured. Figure 1.13 shows the static force measurement and Fig. 1.14 the dynamic measurement, shown as an interaction stiffness. The sensitivity of the dynamic force measurement is such that the interdigitation of the branched methyl groups can be detected (indicated by arrows in Fig. 1.14). 

For such measurements, we model the considered systems as two spherical, molecularly smooth, glass particles with radius R of 1-1.5 mm, with hydrophobized surfaces methylated surfaces, simulating hydrophobic parts of HS, and fluorinated surfaces, simulating hydrophobic part of FS, in various hydrocarbon and fluorocarbon media (HL, FL). Practically, only dispersion interactions take place in these systems, making their quantitative consideration particularly definite - uncomplicated by combination with various polar components [16, 31, 32]. The cohesion force p between these two particles is measured by a device based on the magneto-electric dynamometer, similar to the apparatus used in experiments with droplets [15, 23, 33]. 

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