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Micro-Surface and -Interfacial Tensions Measured Using the Micropipette Technique: Applications in Ultrasound-Microbubbles, Oil micromachines Review Micro-Surface and -Interfacial Tensions Measured Using the Micropipette Technique: Applications in Ultrasound-Microbubbles, Oil-Recovery, Lung-Surfactants, Nanoprecipitation, and Microfluidics David Needham 1,2,3,* , Koji Kinoshita 1 and Anders Utoft 1 1 Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense 5230, Denmark; [email protected] (K.K.); [email protected] (A.U.) 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA 3 School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: 919-660-5355 Received: 14 December 2018; Accepted: 25 January 2019; Published: 1 February 2019 Abstract: This review presents a series of measurements of the surface and interfacial tensions we have been able to make using the micropipette technique. These include: equilibrium tensions at the air-water surface and oil-water interface, as well as equilibrium and dynamic adsorption of water-soluble surfactants and water-insoluble and lipids. At its essence, the micropipette technique is one of capillary-action, glass-wetting, and applied pressure. A micropipette, as a parallel or tapered shaft, is mounted horizontally in a microchamber and viewed in an inverted microscope. When filled with air or oil, and inserted into an aqueous-filled chamber, the position of the surface or interface meniscus is controlled by applied micropipette pressure. The position and hence radius of curvature of the meniscus can be moved in a controlled fashion from dimensions associated with the capillary tip (~5–10 µm), to back down the micropipette that can taper out to 450 µm. All measurements are therefore actually made at the microscale. Following the Young–Laplace equation and geometry of the capillary, the surface or interfacial tension value is simply obtained from the radius of the meniscus in the tapered pipette and the applied pressure to keep it there. Motivated by Franklin’s early experiments that demonstrated molecularity and monolayer formation, we also give a brief potted-historical perspective that includes fundamental surfactancy driven by margarine, the first use of a micropipette to circuitously measure bilayer membrane tensions and free energies of formation, and its basis for revolutionising the study and applications of membrane ion-channels in Droplet Interface Bilayers. Finally, we give five examples of where our measurements have had an impact on applications in micro-surfaces and microfluidics, including gas microbubbles for ultrasound contrast; interfacial tensions for micro-oil droplets in oil recovery; surface tensions and tensions-in-the surface for natural and synthetic lung surfactants; interfacial tension in nanoprecipitation; and micro-surface tensions in microfluidics. Keywords: micropipette-technique; air-water surface; oil-water interface; soluble surfactant; insoluble lipids; “black lipid films”; “droplet-interface-bilayers”; equilibrium; dynamic; adsorption; gas-microbubbles; oil-microdroplets; lung-surfactants; nanoprecipitation; microfluidics Micromachines 2019, 10, 105; doi:10.3390/mi10020105 www.mdpi.com/journal/micromachines Micromachines 2019, 10, 105 2 of 57 Micromachines 2019, 10, x 2 of 59 GraphicalGraphical Abstract Abstract 1. Introduction 1. 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This historical-perspective briefly describes certain collaborations,We start though personal by contacts,presenting and a friendshipsfew short stories that often behind underlie, some or aspects have even of surfactancy enabled, surfactancy we find interestingR&D. It takes and/or us onhave a pottedmade contributions personalised to. journey This historical-perspective that includes: Franklin briefly and hisdescribes “cruet certain of oil”; collaborations,the importance personal and role ofcontacts, Unilever and scientists friendship in generatings that often much underlie, of the fundamental or have even studies enabled, at the surfactancytime; an academic-industrial R&D. 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Franklin and Friends at the Royal Society As is well known, when an oil droplet is introduced at the air-water surface, an oil film can spontaneously spread producing eventually a monomolecular film. Franklin communicated his famous experiment to his friend William Brownrigg, and it was read and published
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