Decompressing emulsion droplets favors coalescence

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Bremond, Nicolas ^a   Thiam, Abdou R ^a   Bibette, Jérôme ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSION REACTIONS; PHASE SEPARATION; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

COMPACT SYSTEMS; DESTABILIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 38349185873     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.024501     Document Type: Article

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