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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Veröffentlicht in:	Physical review letters 2006-12, Vol.97 (24), p.244502-244502, Article 244502
Hauptverfasser:	Hennequin, Y, Aarts, D G A L, van der Wiel, J H, Wegdam, G, Eggers, J, Lekkerkerker, H N W, Bonn, Daniel
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Sprache:	eng
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