Temperature-Tuned Faceting and Shape Changes in Liquid Alkane Droplets

Langmuir

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1305-1314

  Guttman, Shani ^a   Sapir, Zvi ^a,c   Ocko, Benjamin M ^b   Deutsch, Moshe ^a   Sloutskin, Eli ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Intel (Israel) Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; EMULSIFICATION; EMULSIONS; MONOLAYERS; PARAFFINS; SPHERES;

BUCKLING MECHANISM; EMULSION DROPLETS; INTERFACIAL MONOLAYERS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY MEASUREMENTS; SPHERICAL DROPLETS; SURFACTANT-STABILIZED; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TEMPERATURE TUNED;

DROPS;

EID: 85011716130     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b02926     Document Type: Article

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