Surfactant-laden liquid thread breakup driven by thermal fluctuations

Author:

Carnevale Luís H.1ORCID,Deuar Piotr1ORCID,Che Zhizhao2ORCID,Theodorakis Panagiotis E.1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences 1 , Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland

2. State Key Laboratory of Engines, Tianjin University 2 , 300350 Tianjin, China

Abstract

The breakup of liquid threads into droplets is crucial in various applications, such as nanoprinting, nanomanufacturing, and inkjet printing, where a detailed understanding of the thinning neck dynamics allows for a precise droplet control. Here, the role of surfactant in the breakup process is studied by many-body dissipative particle dynamics, in particular, the various regime transitions and thread profiles, shedding light on molecular-level intricacies of this process hitherto inaccessible to continuum theory and experiments. Moreover, the role of surfactant in the most unstable perturbation, the formed droplet size, and surfactant distributions have been unraveled. As surfactant concentration rises, both the wavelength and time to breakup steadily increase due to the lowering of surface tension below the critical micelle concentration (CMC) and viscous effects introduced by micelles above the CMC. These changes prior to the breakup lead to larger droplets being formed in cases with higher surfactant concentration. We also compared the thinning dynamics to existing theoretical predictions, revealing that the surfactant-laden breakup starts at the inertial regime and transitions into the thermal fluctuation regime when the concentration is increased. Thus, we illuminate the hitherto poorly investigated and intricate breakup process of surfactant-laden liquid threads driven by thermal fluctuations, contributing to a deeper understanding of this process at molecular scales.

Funder

Narodowe Centrum Nauki

Infrastruktura PL-Grid

Publisher

AIP Publishing

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