Friday, January 22, 2021

The mystery of pointy oil droplets

A certain type of oil droplets changes shape when cooled and shrunk: from spherical through icosahedral to flat hexagonal. Two competing theories couldn't fully explain this, but now, a Physical Review Letter by Ireth GarcĂ­a-Aguilar and Luca Giomi solves the mystery.

from General Physics News - Science News, Physics News, Physics, Material Sciences, Science https://ift.tt/39Wpd8E

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