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Giant Slip at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces Using Hydrophobic Ball Bearings

Soft Condensed Matter 2014-03-25 v1 Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

Liquid-gas-liquid interfaces stabilized by hydrophobic beads behave as ball bearings under shear and exhibit a giant slip. Using a scaling analysis and molecular dynamics simulations we predict that, when the contact angle theta between the beads and the liquid is large, the slip length diverges as R rho(-1) (pi -theta)(-3) where R is the bead radius, and theta is the bead density. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.104504

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@article{arxiv.1403.5856,
  title  = {Giant Slip at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces Using Hydrophobic Ball Bearings},
  author = {Quentin Ehlinger and Laurent Joly and Olivier Pierre-Louis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.5856},
  year   = {2014}
}