Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Oswald, Patrick
• Poy, Guilhem

Titel

Droplet relaxation in Hele-Shaw geometry: Application to the measurement of the nematic-isotropic surface tension

Ist Teil von

• Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 2015-12, Vol.92 (6), p.062512-062512, Article 062512

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

PROLA

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Shape measurements after the coalescence of isotropic droplets embedded in a thin sample of a homeotropic nematic phase provides a tool to measure the nematic-isotropic surface tension. In addition, this experiment allows us to check the scaling laws recently given by Brun et al. [P.-T. Brun, M. Nagel, and F. Gallaire, Phys. Rev. E 88, 043009 (2013)] to explain the relaxation of ellipsoidal droplets in a Hele-Shaw cell.