Dissolution of a Liquid Microdroplet in a Nonideal Liquid-Liquid Mixture Far from Thermodynamic Equilibrium

A droplet placed in a liquid-liquid solution is expected to grow, or shrink, in time as ∼t[superscript 1/2]. In this Letter, we report experimental evidence that when the composition in the interface is far from thermodynamic equilibrium due to the nonideality of the mixture, a droplet shrinks as ∼t...

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Main Authors: Thorsen, Todd A. (Contributor), Beretta, Gian Paolo (Author), Poesio, Pietro (Author)
Other Authors: Lincoln Laboratory (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2010-02-02T18:34:08Z.
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