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Dedicated to Professor Rüdiger Lange on the occasion of his 65th birthday Gas-liquid reactions in microreactors play an important role in scientific research and industry. Enhancing heat and mass transfer allows overcoming mass transfer limitations in gas-liquid reactions. Mass transfer can be further increased by employing helically coiled capillaries, which induce Dean vortices and improve radial mixing. A colorimetric technique is proposed for gas-liquid reactions in straight and helically coiled capillaries in order to visualize local mass transfer phenomena and concentration distributions. This method is based on the consecutive oxidation of leuco-indigo carmine and enables noninvasive investigation of mass transfer and chemical selectivity in microchannels with high temporal and spatial resolution.

Strong and ductile materials that have high resistance to corrosion and hydrogen embrittlement are rare and yet essential for realizing safety-critical energy infrastructures, hydrogen-based industries, and transportation solutions. Here we report how we reconcile these constraints in the form of a strong and ductile CoNiV medium-entropy alloy with face-centered cubic structure. It shows high resistance to hydrogen embrittlement at ambient temperature at a strain rate of 10−4 s−1, due to its low hydrogen diffusivity and the deformation twinning that impedes crack propagation. Moreover, a dense oxide film formed on the alloy’s surface reduces the hydrogen uptake rate, and provides high corrosion resistance in dilute sulfuric acid with a corrosion current density below 7 μA cm−2. The combination of load carrying capacity and resistance to harsh environmental conditions may qualify this multi-component alloy as a potential candidate material for sustainable and safe infrastructures and devices.

In two‐phase capillary flow, Taylor and Dean vortices can enhance mass transfer according to recent studies. By utilizing a colorimetric method based on the consecutive oxidation of leuco‐indigo carmine it is possible to visualize the superposition of Taylor and Dean vortices in a gas‐liquid system. A kinetic study is performed in order to estimate the enhancement factor. Depending on the flow conditions, three different flow regimes are identified with different intensities of Taylor and Dean vortices affecting the oxygen distribution within the liquid phase. A dimensionless number is derived that describes this transition in flow regimes.

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