Floating and sinking of self-assembled spheres on liquid-liquid interfaces: Rafts versus stacks

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Jones, Steven G ^a   Abbasi, Niki ^a   Ahuja, Abhinav ^a   Truong, Vivian ^a   Tsai, Scott S H ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOLAYERS; SPHERES;

DEPOSITION GEOMETRY; DIMENSIONLESS RATIOS; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; FLUID FLUID INTERFACES; INTERFACIAL ASSEMBLY; LIQUID-LIQUID INTERFACES; OIL WATER INTERFACES; THRESHOLD NUMBERS;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84939172889     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: 10897666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4926555     Document Type: Article

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