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Ballpoint pen tips as robust cone-jet electrospray emitters
- Source :
- Journal of Aerosol Science. 77:10-15
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2014.
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Abstract
- This technical note documents the use of ballpoint pen tips as robust electrospray emitters. The embedded microsphere helps stabilize Taylor cones by effectively reducing the height of the liquid meniscus and significantly decreasing the viscous damping time of the Taylor cone. The microsphere also provides a mechanism for the Taylor cone to continuously adapt its base diameter to match the voltage applied. As a result, the ballpoint pen electrospray emitter noticeably expands the operation envelope in the flow rate-voltage space.
- Subjects :
- Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
Atmospheric Science
Jet (fluid)
Electrospray
Environmental Engineering
Chemistry
business.industry
Mechanical Engineering
Base (geometry)
Technical note
Pollution
Taylor cone
Physics::Fluid Dynamics
Optics
Cone (topology)
business
Envelope (mathematics)
Common emitter
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00218502
- Volume :
- 77
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Aerosol Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........326f22a88e1fe0102282c2d2db747eef