TY - JOUR TI - Rheology of the wet surfactant foams and biofoams - a review AU - Krzan, Marcel TI - Rheology of the wet surfactant foams and biofoams - a review AB - The rheology of foams is a difficult subject due to the complexity of their structure and the nature of their components. It’s influenced by multiple factors including: liquid bulk properties, gas properties, air phase volume, liquid volume fraction, solution viscosity, interfacial thin film visco-elasticity, bubble size distribution, and bubble shape. A nature of the adsorbed surfactants or biosurfactants and state of adsorption layer also modified the properties of the thin liquid film. The physical measurements of foam rheological properties are also complicated by its inherently unstable nature. Therefore, this review is focused on rheological studies and comparisons between various surfactant based foams and biofoams having wellcharacterized and different properties. VL - 2013 IS - Chemia Zeszyt 1-Ch (1) 2013 PY - 2014 SN - 0011-4561 C1 - 2353-737X SP - 10 EP - 27 DO - 10.4467/2353737XCT.14.035.2618 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/czasopismo-techniczne/artykul/rheology-of-the-wet-surfactant-foams-and-biofoams-a-review KW - rheology KW - foams KW - surfactants KW - biosurfactants KW - proteins KW - viscoelasticity KW - yielding