Microfluidic production of endoskeleton droplets with controlled size and shape

M Caggioni, D Traini, PM Young, PT Spicer - Powder Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Oil-in-water emulsion droplets, containing an elastic endoskeleton that holds the droplets in
various non-spherical shapes, are formed by crystallizing a portion of the oil phase into a …

Arrested coalescence of viscoelastic droplets: Ellipsoid shape effects and reorientation

C Hao, Z Xie, TJ Atherton, PT Spicer - Langmuir, 2018 - ACS Publications
The stable configurations formed by two poroelastic, ellipsoid-shaped droplets during their
arrested coalescence have been investigated using micromanipulation experiments …

Model of Structured Emulsion Droplet Stability and Reconfigurability

AV Bayles, TA Prileszky, PT Spicer, EM Furst - Langmuir, 2018 - ACS Publications
A model of internally structured emulsion droplets is presented that accounts for the traction
forces generated by interfacial tension and the von Mises yield criterion of the internal …

Aggregation in viscoelastic emulsion droplet gels with capillarity-driven rearrangements

A Thiel, TJ Atherton, PT Spicer, RW Hartel - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Arrested, or partial, coalescence of viscoelastic emulsion droplets can occur when elastic
resistance to deformation offsets droplet surface area minimization. Arrest is a critical …

Selective shape-change response by anisotropic endoskeletal droplets

V Poulichet, M Terkel, PT Spicer, D Traini… - Extreme Mechanics …, 2020 - Elsevier
Control of particle shape is of increased interest, as it can broaden the versatility of
dispersed material applications. The design of targeted and selective response, such as …

Arrested coalescence of viscoelastic droplets: Ellipsoid shape effects and restructuring

C Hao, Z Xie, TJ Atherton, PT Spicer - arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.09469, 2018 - arxiv.org
The stable configurations formed by two viscoelastic, ellipsoid-shaped droplets during their
arrested coalescence has been investigated using micromanipulation experiments …