2001/12/17 by Jean‐Baptiste Fournier, J. -B. Fournier, P. Galatola · 2 citations
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Liquid Crystal Research Advancements #Material Dynamics and Properties #Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreve.65.031601
4 pages, 5 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. E
arxiv created 2001/12/17 · openalex publication_date 2002/02/08 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We determine the capillary attraction and equilibrium configurations of particles trapped at a liquid-fluid interface due to the pinning of their contact line. We calculate analytically the asymptotic interaction energy between two particles and, numerically, the multibody energy landscape for up to four contacting particles. Our results are consistent with recent experiments. We show that a system composed of a large number of such particles behaves as a jammed system.