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Shape-shifting polyhedral droplets

2019; American Physical Society; Volume: 1; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevresearch.1.023017

ISSN

2643-1564

Autores

Pierre A. Haas, Diana Cholakova, Nikolai D. Denkov, Raymond E. Goldstein, Stoyan K. Smoukov,

Tópico(s)

Micro and Nano Robotics

Resumo

Oil droplets in aqueous surfactant solutions flatten into a host of polyhedral and polygonal shapes on slow cooling. These intriguing transformations promise novel synthesis methods for small polymeric particles. This paper reveals an intermediate octahedral stage that explain how icosahedral droplets flatten into polygonal platelets.

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