Soap-film Möbius strip changes topology with a twist singularity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 51, 2010, Pages 21979-21984

  Goldstein, Raymond E ^a   Moffatt, H Keith ^a   Pesci, Adriana I ^a   Ricca, Renzo L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Contact line; Topological transition

Indexed keywords

SOAP;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; DYNAMICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 78650668805     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015997107     Document Type: Article

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