Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2009-01-23
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
8 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Physical Review Letters
Scientific paper
Phenomenon of foam and emulsion jamming at low shear rates is explained by considering the dynamics of thinning in the transient film, formed between the neighboring bubbles and drops. After gradually thinning down to a critical thickness, these films undergo instability transition and thin stepwise, forming the so-called "black films", which are only several nanometers thick and, thereby, lead to stronger adhesion between the dispersed particles. Theoretical analysis shows that such film thickness instability occurs only if the contact time between the bubbles/drops in sheared foam/emulsion is sufficiently long, which corresponds to sufficiently low (critical) rate of shear. Explicit expression for this critical rate is proposed and compared to experimental data.
Denkov N. D.
Golemanov K.
Lips Alex
Tcholakova S.
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