Dissolution of a Liquid Microdroplet in a Nonideal Liquid-Liquid Mixture Far from Thermodynamic Equilibrium

A droplet placed in a liquid-liquid solution is expected to grow, or shrink, in time as ∼t[superscript 1/2]. In this Letter, we report experimental evidence that when the composition in the interface is far from thermodynamic equilibrium due to the nonideality of the mixture, a droplet shrinks as ∼t...

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Main Authors: Thorsen, Todd A., Beretta, Gian Paolo, Poesio, Pietro
Other Authors: Lincoln Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51330