The following articles are part of an upcoming Themed Issue on Dynamics and Rheology of Fluid Interfaces with Professor Gerald Fuller (Stanford University, USA) and Professor Jan Vermant (K.U. Leuven, Belgium) as the Guest Editors. Read them for free here until 20 August…
Arrested coalescence in Pickering emulsions: Foods, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics all contain emulsions, a dispersion of two immiscible fluids. When two emulsion drops begin to coalesce, their fusion into a single spherical drop can be arrested at an intermediate shape, which is directly observed here. Amar B. Pawar, Marco Caggioni, Roja Ergun, Richard W. Hartel and Patrick T. Spicer, Soft Matter, 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1SM05457K
Stability of an interface with ultra-low tension in a Couette flow: The stability of stratified flows at low Reynolds number is a long-standing issue. This paper assesses the influence of surface tension on the stability of the flow. Marine Thiébaud and Thomas Bickel, Soft Matter, 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1SM05205E
Cavitation rheology of the eye lens: Mechanical properties of the eye lens need to be studied for understanding eye diseases such as presbytopia. Cavitation rheology was used to determine elastic properties in the bovine lens. Jun Cui, Cheol Hee Lee, Aline Delbos, Jennifer J. McManus and Alfred J. Crosby, Soft Matter, 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1SM05340J
