Study demonstrates spontaneous self-organization of microdroplets through quasi one-dimensional confinement
Published Date: 3/20/2024
Source: phys.org
Polymer systems composed of multiple components can spontaneously induce emulsion or microdroplets by mechanical mixing, as an intermediate state of macroscopic phase separation. Unfortunately, the size of generated droplets is nonuniform and their spatial-arrangement is rather random. In addition, they tend to grow larger with time (coarsening).