Drop formation by thermal fluctuations at an ultralow surface tension.
We present experimental evidence that drop breakup is caused by thermal noise in a system with a surface tension that is more than 10(6) times smaller than that of water. We observe that at very small scales classical hydrodynamics breaks down and the characteristic signatures of pinch-off due to th...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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