Capillary force on a micrometric sphere trapped at a fluid interface exhibiting arbitrary curvature gradients

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Blanc, Christophe ^a   Fedorenko, Denys ^a   Gross, Michel ^a   In, Martin ^a   Abkarian, Manouk ^a   Gharbi, Mohamed Amine ^a   Fournier, Jean Baptiste ^b   Galatola, Paolo ^b   Nobili, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY LENGTH; COLLOIDAL DEPOSITION; CURVATURE GRADIENTS; GAUSSIAN CURVATURES; INTERFACE CURVATURES; MEASUREMENTS OF; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; SPHERICAL COLLOIDS;

COLLOIDS;

FLUIDITY;

COLLOID;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; INTERFEROMETRY; PROCEDURES; SURFACE TENSION;

COLLOIDS; INTERFEROMETRY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 84881503729     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.058302     Document Type: Article

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