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Facility for Absorption and Surface Tension (FASTER)
03.22.12

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Experiment/Payload Overview

Information provided courtesy of the Erasmus Experiment Archive.
Brief Summary

Facility for Absorption and Surface Tension (FASTER) investigates how surfactants (surface acting agents that reduce the surface tension of water) will affect the physical chemistry properties and emulsion stability of droplet interfaces.

Principal Investigator

  • Liberio Liggieri, Ph.D., Institute of Physical Chemistry of Materials, Genova, , Italy

    • Co-Investigator(s)/Collaborator(s)

  • A. Di Lullo, , , , , Italy
  • Annie Steinchen, , Université Paul Cezanne, Aix-Marseille, Marseille, , France
  • Christine Dalmazzone, Ph.D., Institute Francais du Petrole, Riel-Malmaison, , France
  • Daniele Clausse, Ph.D., Universite de Technologie Compiegne, Compiegne, , France
  • Giuseppe Loglio, Ph.D., University of Florence, Firenze, , Italy
  • Reinhard Miller, Ph.D., Max-Planck Institut for Kolloid und Grenzflaechenforschung, Potsdam, , Germany

    • Payload Developer Information Pending

    Sponsoring Space Agency

    European Space Agency (ESA)

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    ISS Expedition Duration:

    March 2012 - September 2012



    Expeditions Assigned

    31/32

    Previous ISS Missions

    FASTER is scheduled for its first operations on ISS Increment 23/24.

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    Experiment/Payload Description

    Research Summary

    • FASTER aims to determine the characteristics of liquid/liquid interface surfactant adsorption dynamics (how the surfactant interaction with liquids affects the flow).


    • FASTER will investigate adsorption dynamics (how binding of molecules to a surface affects flow), surfactant transfer (when the surfactant crosses the liquid/liquid boundary), interfacial rheology (flow properties of interfaces), and the role of surfactants in stabilization (maintaining droplet interfaces).

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    Applications

    Space Applications

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    Earth Applications

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    Operations

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    Operational Protocols

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    Results/More Information

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    Publications

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    Images

    Information provided by the investigation team to the ISS Program Scientist's Office.
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