Effect of ultrasonic frequency and surfactant addition on microcapsule destruction |
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Affiliation: | Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering Science, Kansai University, Osaka 564-8680, Japan |
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Abstract: | In a previous study, we found that cavitation bubbles cause the ultrasonic destruction of microcapsules containing oil in a shell made of melamine resin. The cavitation bubbles can be smaller or larger than the resonance size; smaller bubbles cause Rayleigh contraction, whereas larger bubbles are not involved in the sonochemical reaction. The activity in and around the bubble (e.g., shear stress, shock wave, microjet, sonochemical reaction, and sonoluminescence) varies substantially depending on the bubble size. In this study, we investigated the mechanism of the ultrasonic destruction of microcapsules by examining the correlations between frequency and microcapsule destruction rate and between microcapsule size and cavitation bubble size. We evaluated the bubbles using multibubble sonoluminescence and the bubble size was changed by adding a surfactant to the microcapsule suspension. The microcapsule destruction was frequency dependent. The main cause of microcapsule destruction was identified as mechanical resonance, although the relationship between bubble size and microcapsule size suggested that bubbles smaller than or equal to the microcapsule size may also destroy microcapsules by applying shear stress locally. |
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Keywords: | Microcapsules Polydisperse Sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) High-frequency ultrasonic waves Physical effect |
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