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Contactless rheology of finite-size air-water interfaces

Vincent Bertin1,2,*, Zaicheng Zhang1,*, Rodolphe Boisgard1, Christine Grauby-Heywang1, Elie Raphaël2, Thomas Salez1,3,†, and Abdelhamid Maali1,‡

  • 1Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, LOMA, UMR 5798, 33405 Talence, France
  • 2UMR CNRS Gulliver 7083, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, 75005 Paris, France
  • 3Global Station for Soft Matter, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0808, Japan

  • *These authors contributed equally to this paper.
  • †thomas.salez@u-bordeaux.fr
  • ‡abdelhamid.maali@u-bordeaux.fr
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Phys. Rev. Research 3, L032007 – Published 8 July, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.L032007

Abstract

We present contactless atomic force microscopy measurements of the hydrodynamic interactions between an oscillating sphere and a bubble in water at the microscale. The size of the bubble is found to have a significant effect on the response due to the long-range capillary deformation of the air-water interface. To rationalize the experimental data, we develop a viscocapillary lubrication model accounting for the finite-size effect. The comparison between experiments and theory allows us to measure the air-water surface tension, without contact and with the volume of liquid down to tens of microliters, paving the way toward robust contactless tensiometry of polluted air-water interfaces.

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Phys. Rev. Research 3, L032007– Published 8 July, 2021
  • Received 6 November 2020
  • Revised 9 April 2021
  • Accepted 16 June 2021
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