Soft matter
Surfactant-laden micro-scale droplet coalescence in Bancroft-breaking systems.
Yun Chen, Negin Bahadori, Cari S Dutcher
Published: 202510.1039/d4sm00644e
Abstract
The dispersed droplets in liquid-liquid droplet emulsions are often stabilized by the surfactant molecules adsorbed onto the droplet interfaces, which reduces the interfacial tension and generally inhibits droplet coalescence. Other factors, such as…
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