Browsing by Subject "soft matter physics (foams, liquid crystals)"
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Analysis of the foam-forming of non-woven lightweight fibrous materials using X-ray tomography
(2021)Foam-forming has in the past predominantly been used to create two-dimensional sheet-like fibrous materials. Allowing the foam to drain freely and decay under gravity, rather than applying a vacuum to remove it rapidly, ... -
Can soap films be used as models for mortality studies?
(2018)We report studies of the life expectancy of sets of parallel liquid films made from surfactant solution and contained in cylindrical perspex tubes. The tubes are sealed at the bottom and vertically placed. From our analysis ... -
Chapter 16: The structure of liquid foams
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Demonstration and interpretation of "scutoid" cells formed in a quasi-2D soap froth
(2018)Recently a novel type of epithelial cell has been discovered and dubbed the ‘scutoid’. It is induced by curvature of the bounding surfaces. We show by simulations and experiments that such cells are to be found in a dry ... -
Eufoam 2016
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Implementation of Morse-Witten theory for a polydisperse wet 2D foam simulation
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-06)The Morse–Witten theory provides a formulation for the inter-bubble forces and corresponding deformations in a liquid foam, accurate in the limit of high liquid fraction. Here we show how the theory may be applied in ... -
Properties of lightweight fibrous structures made by a novel foam forming technique
(2019)We describe a novel method for the production of lightweight fibrous structures of densities as low as 8.8 kg m−3 . The method is based on the use of liquid foam as a carrier medium for dispersed Kraft fibres. Different ... -
Z-Cone model for the energy of an ordered foam
(2014)We develop the Z-Cone Model, in terms of which the energy of a foam may be estimated. It is directly applicable to an ordered structure in which every bubble has Z identical neighbours. The energy (i.e. surface area) may ...