Anomalous relaxation of coarsening foams with viscoelastic continuous phases

Chiara Guidolin1, Emmanuelle Rio2, Roberto Cerbino3

  • 1Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, University of Milan, Segrate, Italy. chiara.guidolin@unimi.it.

Soft Matter
|August 22, 2024
PubMed

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