How faceted liquid droplets grow tails

E. Sloutskin

How faceted liquid droplets grow tails

Department of Physics

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Liquid droplets, widely encountered in everyday life, have no flat facets. Here we show that water-dispersed oil droplets can be reversibly temperature-tuned to icosahedral and other faceted shapes, hitherto unreported for liquid droplets. These shape changes are shown to originate in the interplay between interfacial tension and the elasticity of the droplet's 2-nm-thick interfacial monolayer, which crystallizes at some T = Ts above the oil's melting point, with the droplet's bulk remaining liquid. Strikingly, at still-lower temperatures, this interfacial freezing (IF) effect also causes droplets to deform, split, and grow tails. Our findings provide deep insights into molecular-scale elasticity and allow formation of emulsions of tunable stability for directed self-assembly of complex-shaped particles and other future technologies

Original language	English
State	Published - 2015
Event	The 61st annual meeting of the Israel Physical Society - Israeli Physical Society, Ramat Gan, Israel Duration: 13 Dec 2015 → 13 Dec 2015

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Conference	The 61st annual meeting of the Israel Physical Society
Country/Territory	Israel
City	Ramat Gan
Period	13/12/15 → 13/12/15

The 61st annual meeting of the Israel Physical Society
Sloutskin, E. (Participation - Conference participant)
13 Dec 2015
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How faceted liquid droplets grow tails

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