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- Contact angle of submicron particles hal link

Auteur(s): Stocco A.

Conference: Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Summer school (Interface dept.), (Lecce, IT, 2012-10-04)


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Colloid and interface science has been developed in many aspects and now many phenomena taking place in the colloidal scale and/or at the interface are well described by theory and fully addressed by experiments. However, some fundamental and "old" problems have remained unsolved up to now. Here, I would like to address the "simple" case of contact angles (CAs) of submicron particles at the water interface. Is the macroscopic CA, measured by the wetting angle of a water drop on a macroscopic substrate, the same as the CA of a submicron particle at the water interface? In this presentation, I will explain how to measure in-situ CAs of colloidal particles at the fluid interface using ellipsometry, compare different CAs measurements and discuss the role of electrostatics at the water surface.