https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2003-10086-6
The interfacial energy of two-dimensional bidisperse cellular fluids
Faculty of Chemistry, A. Mickiewicz University, Grunwaldzka 6, 60-780, Poznań, Poland
* e-mail: gwnow@amu.edu.pl
The mixing energy of two biphasic fluid systems (dispersions of two liquids or a liquid and a gas, A and B in a liquid C), confined between two parallel plates, is calculated. Our attention is limited to concentrated and monodisperse systems, i.e. emulsions and foam/emulsions consisting of equal-size (if of the same composition) cells separated by a thin liquid film. It is demonstrated that the multiphase mixtures ordered into regular patterns can be stable in a wide range of interfacial tensions acting along A-C and B-C interfaces and also in a wide range of volume fractions of fluid A. Anisotropic properties of such well-ordered structures are also demonstrated.
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, and Springer-Verlag, 2004
