Dissolution of a Liquid Microdroplet in a Nonideal Liquid-Liquid Mixture Far from Thermodynamic Equilibrium
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Thorsen, Todd A.
Beretta, Gian Paolo
Poesio, Pietro
Date Issued
August 2009
Journal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Poesio, Pietro , Gian Paolo Beretta, and Todd Thorsen. “Dissolution of a Liquid Microdroplet in a Nonideal Liquid-Liquid Mixture Far from Thermodynamic Equilibrium.” Physical Review Letters 103.6 (2009): 064501. (C) 2010 The American Physical Society.
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Abstract
A droplet placed in a liquid-liquid solution is expected to grow, or shrink, in time as ∼t[superscript 1/2]. In this Letter, we report experimental evidence that when the composition in the interface is far from thermodynamic equilibrium due to the nonideality of the mixture, a droplet shrinks as ∼t. This scaling is due to the coupling between mass and momentum transfer known as Korteweg forces as a result of which the droplet self-propels around. The consequent hydrodynamic convection greatly enhances the mass transfer between the droplet and the bulk phase. Thus, the combined effect of nonideality and nonequilibrium modifies the dynamical behavior of the dissolving droplet.
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Lincoln Laboratory
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.064501
