Generation and characterization of ultrathin free-flowing liquid sheets

0501046 - FZÚ 2019 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Koralek, J.D. - Kim, J.B. - Brůža, Petr - Curry, Ch.B. - Chen, Z. - Bechtel, H.A. - Cordones, A.A. - Sperling, P. - Toleikis, S. - Kern, J.F. - Moeller, S.P. - Glenzer, S. H. - DePonte, D.P.
Generation and characterization of ultrathin free-flowing liquid sheets.
Nature Communications. Roč. 9, Apr (2018), s. 1-8, č. článku 1353. E-ISSN 2041-1723
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT EF16_019/0000789
Grant - others:OP VVV - ADONIS(XE) CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000789
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : thickness distribution * X-ray * water * jet * spectroscopy
OECD category: Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)
Impact factor: 11.878, year: 2018

The physics and chemistry of liquid solutions play a central role in science, and our understanding of life on Earth.Unfortunately, key tools for interrogating aqueous systems, such as infrared and soft X-ray spectroscopy, cannot readily be applied because of strong absorption in water. Here we use gas-dynamic forces to generate free-flowing, sub-micron, liquid sheets which are two orders of magnitude thinner than anything previously reported.Optical, infrared, and X-ray spectroscopies are used to characterize the sheets, which are found to be tunable in thickness from over 1 μm down to less than 20 nm, which corresponds to fewer than 100 water molecules thick.

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