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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Main Authors: Hennequin, Y, Aarts, D, van der Wiel, J, Wegdam, G, Eggers, J, Lekkerkerker, H, Bonn, D
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado em: 2006

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