Química Nova (Mar 2005)

Construção e avaliação de célula de fluxo para estudo da tensão interfacial dinâmica da interface fluxo líquido - sólido por despolarização da fluorescência Development of a flow cell to study dynamic interfacial tension of solid-liquid flow by fluorescence depolarization

  • Martha T. P. O. Castro,
  • Cristina M. Quintella

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-40422005000200028
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 2
pp. 337 – 339

Abstract

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A simple low-cost flow cell was developed, built and optimized in order to observe dynamic interfacial tension of continuous flow systems. Distinct materials can be used in one of the cell walls in order to observe the intermolecular forces between the flowing liquid and the chemical constitution of the walls. The fluorescence depolarization was evaluated using Rhodamine B as fluorescent probe seeded in ethylene glycol. The effects of the positioning angles on the data acquired across the cell are reported. The reproducibility of the data was evaluated with a spectrometer assembled in-house and the relative standard deviation was below 3%.

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