title: Spontaneous rise of surfactant solutions into vertical hydrophobic capillaries.
abstract: It has been found earlier (N.V. Churaev, G.A. Martynov, V.M. Starov, Z.M. Zorin, Colloid Polym. Sci. 259 (1981) 747) that aqueous surfactant solutions spontaneously rise in vertical hydrophobized quartz capillaries. A theory of this phenomenon is presented, which connects the experimental observations with the adsorption of surfactant molecules in front of the moving meniscus on the bare hydrophobic interface.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University, LE11 3TU, UK. v.m.starov@lboro.ac.uk
authors.forename: Victor M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Starov