Determination Method and Size Dependence of Interfacial Tension between Nanoparticles and a Solution. 2018

Huijuan Duan, and Zixiang Cui, and Yongqiang Xue, and Qingshan Fu, and Xinghui Chen, and Rong Zhang
Department of Applied Chemistry , Taiyuan University of Technology , Taiyuan 030024 , China.

Interfacial tension plays an important role in the processes of preparation, research, and application of nanomaterials. Because the interfacial tension is fairly difficult to be determined by experiments, it is still unclear about the effect of particle size on interfacial tension. In this paper, we proposed a method to determine the interfacial tensions and its temperature coefficients by determining the electrode potential of the nanoparticle electrode. Nano-Au with different radii (from 0.9 to 37.4 nm) in an aqueous solution was taken as a research system; we determined the interfacial tension and its temperature coefficient of the interface and discussed the size dependence. At the same time, we found surprisingly that this method can also be applied to determine the Tolman length and the atomic radius. The results show that the particle size of nano-Au has remarkable influences on the interfacial tension and its temperature coefficient. As the particle size decreases, the interfacial tension and the absolute value of its temperature coefficient increase. With the decrease of radius, the influences of the particle size on the interfacial tension and its temperature coefficient become more significant, whereas the influences can be neglected when the radius exceeds 10 nm. In addition, the results also show that the Tolman length is a negative value, and temperature has little effect on the Tolman length. This research can provide a new method to conveniently and reliably determine the interfacial tension on interfaces between nanoparticles and solutions, the temperature coefficients, the Tolman lengths, and the atomic radii; and the size dependences can provide important references for preparation, research, and application of nanomaterials.

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