Self-shaping of oil droplets via the formation of intermediate rotator phases upon cooling

Nature

Volumn 528, Issue 7582, 2015, Pages 392-395

  Denkov, Nikolai ^a   Tcholakova, Slavka ^a   Lesov, Ivan ^a   Cholakova, Diana ^a   Smoukov, Stoyan K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON; OIL;

COOLING; DROPLET; FREEZING; OIL; SHAPE;

AIR AND AIR RELATED PHENOMENA; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; COOLING; ELASTICITY; FREEZING; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MORPHOGENESIS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84950253284     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature16189     Document Type: Article

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