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Surfactant films in lyotropic lamellar (and related) phases: Fluctuations and interactions

Soft Condensed Matter 2017-10-09 v2

Abstract

The analogy between soap films thinning under border capillary suction and lamellar stacks of surfactant bilayers dehydrated by osmotic stress is explored, in particular in the highly dehydrated limit where the soap film becomes a Newton black film. The nature of short-range repulsive interactions between surfactant-covered interfaces and acting across water channels in both cases will be discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1704.07874,
  title  = {Surfactant films in lyotropic lamellar (and related) phases: Fluctuations and interactions},
  author = {Frédéric Nallet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.07874},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

29 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication (2017/06/21), Advances in Colloid and Interface Science