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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 110, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.064502
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- Hong Kong RGC [CUHK404211, CUHK404912, 2060442]
- NNSFC [11075035/11222544]
- Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation [131008]
- Shanghai Rising-Star Program [12QA1400200]
Combining high-speed photography with electric current measurement, we investigate the electrocoalescence of Pickering emulsion droplets. Under a high enough electric field, the originally stable droplets coalesce via two distinct approaches: normal coalescence and abnormal coalescence. In the normal coalescence, a liquid bridge grows continuously and merges two droplets together, similar to the classical picture. In the abnormal coalescence, however, the bridge fails to grow indefinitely; instead, it breaks up spontaneously due to the geometric constraint from particle shells. Such connecting-then-breaking cycles repeat multiple times, until a stable connection is established. In depth analysis indicates that the defect size in particle shells determines the exact merging behaviors: when the defect size is larger than a critical size around the particle diameter, normal coalescence will show up, while abnormal coalescence will appear for coatings with smaller defects. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.064502
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