Coalescence in Draining Foams Made of Very Small Bubbles

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Briceño Ahumada, Zenaida ^a,b   Drenckhan, Wiebke ^a   Langevin, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

AQUEOUS SURFACTANT SOLUTIONS; FILM RUPTURE; LIQUID DRAINAGE; LIQUID FRACTION; LIQUID VOLUME FRACTION; LITERATURE DATA;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84962750083     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.128302     Document Type: Article

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