Structure and energy of liquid foams

Advances in Colloid and Interface Science

Volumn 224, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-16

  Drenckhan, Wiebke ^a   Hutzler, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Emulsion structure; Foam structure; Interfacial energy; Jamming; Osmotic pressure

Indexed keywords

EMULSIFICATION; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; JAMMING; OSMOSIS;

EMULSION STRUCTURES; FOAM STRUCTURE; LIQUID CONTENTS; LIQUID FRACTION; LIQUID VOLUME FRACTION; MEASUREMENTS OF; ORDER AND DISORDER; X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84940718112     PISSN: 00018686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2015.05.004     Document Type: Review

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