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Liquid crystals as lamellar reservoirs reduce thinning by drainage

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FOAMS and thin liquid films have provided important model systems for theories of water–surfactant interactions in colloidal systems1,2. Particular interest has been focused on the stability and structure of black films, since they represent a theoretically attractive system with implications for both physical and biological sciences. Until now drainage studies of thin films have concerned films formed from dilute surfactant solutions, which are of limited stability (that is, with a lifetime of a few minutes).

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  1. The Swedish Institute for Surface Chemistry, Drottning Kristinas väg 45, S-114 28, Stockholm, Sweden

    KELVIN ROBERTS, CLAES AXBERG, ROLF ÖSTERLUND & HIROSHI SAITO

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ROBERTS, K., AXBERG, C., ÖSTERLUND, R. et al. Liquid crystals as lamellar reservoirs reduce thinning by drainage. Nature 255, 53–54 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/255053a0

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