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Fluorocarbon vapors slow down coalescence in foams: influence of surfactant concentration

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Even though it has been known for a long time that traces of perfluorinated vapors suppress gas exchange (coarsening) between the bubbles of aqueous foams, its stabilizing impact on foam coalescence has been evidenced only recently. While previous work has demonstrated this effect for different surfactant types, we investigate here the influence of the surfactant concentration. We compared the foam properties of aqueous solutions of the non-ionic surfactant dodecyldimethylphospine oxide (C12DMPO) in the absence and presence of perfluorohexane (PFH) in the gas phase. In order to decouple foam coarsening and coalescence, we accompany the foam stability experiments with (a) lifetime statistics of individual, vertical foam films pulled from the same solutions and (b) surface tension measurements in controlled gas environments. All measurements show a clear increase of foam and film stability in the presence of PFH, its effect being most pronounced above the cmc of the surfactant. The surface tension measurements show a clear co-adsorption of the PFH up to the formation of macroscopic films at saturation. We complete the analysis by showing that alkane vapors also have a stabilizing effect for the same surfactant solutions, yet much less pronounced than that of PFH. The precise origin of the stabilizing action of these hydrophobic vapors remains to be elucidated.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Martin Hamann, Sébastien Andrieux, Dominique Langevin, and Marie-Pierre Krafft for stimulating discussions. We thank Marie-Pierre Krafft to have shared numerous surfactants with us for preliminary tests (such as the F-PEG2000 shown in Fig. S1 in the supporting information). Leandro Jacomine is thanked for the help with the measurements. Cosima Stubenrauch acknowledges a fellowship by the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Strasbourg (USIAS), and Wiebke Drenckhan acknowledges financial support by an ERC consolidator grant (agreement 819511—METAFOAM). Overall, this work was conducted in the framework of the Interdisciplinary Institute HiFunMat, as part of the ITI 2021-2028 program of the University of Strasbourg, CNRS and Inserm, and was supported by IdEx Unistra (ANR-10-IDEX-0002) and SFRI (STRATUS project, ANR-20-SFRI-0012) under the framework of the French Investments for the Future Program.

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    Katja Steck, Jonathan Dijoux, Victor Bouylout & Wiebke Drenckhan

  2. Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 55, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Natalie Preisig & Cosima Stubenrauch

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Steck, K., Dijoux, J., Preisig, N. et al. Fluorocarbon vapors slow down coalescence in foams: influence of surfactant concentration. Colloid Polym Sci 301, 685–695 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-023-05129-7

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