Flowing Crystals: Nonequilibrium Structure of Foam
From Soft-Matter
Written by: Grant England AP225 Fall, 2011
Info
Title: Flowing Crystals: Nonequilibrium Structure of Foam
Authors: Piotr Garstecki and George M. Whitesides
@Harvard: http://gmwgroup.harvard.edu/pubs/pdf/965.pdf
Keywords
foam, lattice, metastable state
Summary
This paper describes the formation of five different types of "flowing crystals" of foam in a nonequilibrium process and attempts to describe why the different phases form by showing that it cannot be a function of interfacial energy.