Abstract
Recent Surface Force Apparatus measurements on thin film drainage as a bubble approaches a surface are reinterpreted in terms of a new model for the air/water interface. In this model, surface charge at the interface can be convected and can diffuse along the surface as the film drains. This creates surface tension gradients, since surface tension includes a charge-dependent contribution from the double-layer free energy. Although this electrocapillary effect is relatively small, we show here that the gradients are large enough to create Marangoni effects that influence the hydrodynamic flow in real systems. The new model can account for observed changes in hydrodynamic boundary condition from mobile initially to immobile during early stages of film drainage, and back to partially mobile as drainage progresses. Experimental film profiles for a millimeter-size bubble in 1 mM KCl solution driven toward a mica surface at 27 μm/s are reasonably well described with this mobile surface charge model. At longer times, there are still features of the experimental data that remain to be explained, which suggests further modeling is warranted.
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