Dynamic dilational viscoelasticity of surfactant layers at liquid–liquid interfaces

Abstract

Dynamic dilational viscoelasticity is an important physical characteristic of interfacial layers because it influences the dynamics and stability of multiphase systems, such as thin liquid films, foams and emulsions. Dilational viscoelasticity depends on many factors. Less studied, but very important, factors are the solubility of the solution components in two contacting liquids, the simultaneous presence of two solution components within a mixed adsorption layer and the curvature of the interface. In this review, we considered several new developments of previously proposed models, which can be used for the analysis of new experimental data. In the presence of such effects, the behaviour of the dilational viscoelasticity becomes more complicated and requires more parameters for its description. An alternative way is to use phenomenological models, which do not identify the particular relaxation processes but propose a description of the dilational viscoelasticity in general terms.