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Advances in surface-light-scattering instrumentation and analysis: noninvasive measuring of surface tension, viscosity, and other interfacial parameters

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Abstract

A new generation of vibration-mitigating surface-light-scattering instrumentation has been designed and built. The computational application of an instrument function derived by use of Fourier optics is presented. This instrument and its accompanying suite of analysis software allow us to easily make accurate and noninvasive measurements of the interfacial tension, volume viscosity, and other interfacial parameters of fluids. We derived the necessary surface response function algorithms to study both simple fluids and binary fluids at their wetting transition and near their critical points. These developments can be applied to study systems with liquid–vapor and liquid–liquid interfaces, including spread monolayers, whenever optical access for a laser beam is available.

© 2001 Optical Society of America

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