Domaines
Condensed matter
Soft matter
Physics of liquids
Type of internship
Expérimental Description
Liquid foams play a crucial role in the ecological and energy transition. Among many, they have applications, such as cleaning and decontaminating surfaces or confined spaces, capturing and controlling dust on construction sites or industrial areas, wastewater remediation, or separating finely divided materials for extracting precious metals from recycled electronic devices (urban mining). Liquid foams are multifunctional materials referred to as "complex" because they consist of an assembly of bubbles in varying concentrations within a liquid. We are exploring a com-pletely new type of liquid foam, in which the bubbles adhere to each other when they come into contact, remaining attached until a sufficient force is applied to separate them. Recent work revealed that bubble adhesion can considera-bly strengthen foam separation functionalities. This internship proposal will focus on the fundamental flow properties of adhesive foams and the underlying shear-induced bubble dynamics.
Contact
Sylvie COHEN-ADDAD
Laboratory : Institut des NanoSciences de Paris - UMR 7588
Team : Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces
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Team : Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces
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