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SUBMITTER: Miskin MZ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3311332 | biostudies-other | 2012 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Miskin Marc Z MZ Jaeger Heinrich M HM
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120305 12
When a dense suspension is squeezed from a nozzle, droplet detachment can occur similar to that of pure liquids. While in pure liquids the process of droplet detachment is well characterized through self-similar profiles and known scaling laws, we show here the simple presence of particles causes suspensions to break up in a new fashion. Using high-speed imaging, we find that detachment of a suspension drop is described by a power law; specifically we find the neck minimum radius, r(m), scales l ...[more]