Particle-Stabilized Water Droplets that Sprout Millimeter-Scale Tubes

Migle Grauzinyte; Joe Forth; Katherine A. Rumble; Paul S. Clegg

doi:10.1002/anie.201408365

Particle-Stabilized Water Droplets that Sprout Millimeter-Scale Tubes

Migle Grauzinyte, Joe Forth, Katherine A. Rumble, Paul S. Clegg^*

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School of Physics and Astronomy

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Millimeter-scale tubes are observed to sprout from water droplets injected into a bath of toluene containing ethanol and silica colloids. This phenomenon requires that first a membrane is formed by the colloids which self-assemble at the droplet interface, and second, that the ethanol preferentially partitions into the aqueous phase leading to an internal over-pressure. Tube growth, eruption, and shuffling droplets are subsequently observed, depending on the concentration of ethanol and colloids selected. This work opens many possibilities in the field of biomimetic droplets for fundamental studies of artificial growth at the microscale and for emulsion-related applications.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1456-1460
Number of pages	5
Journal	Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Volume	54
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201408365
Publication status	Published - 26 Jan 2015

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colloids
droplet growth
interfaces
rheology
self-assembly
EMULSIONS
INTERFACES

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