Volume 130, Issue 21
26 May 2023
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On the Cover
An initially spherical silicon oil droplet (0.2 mm) submerged in water gradually deforms into a pendant droplet (red line) after a water-ice solidification front (not shown) advances at a slow rate from right to left to engulf the deformed droplet.
From the article:
Thin-Film-Mediated Deformation of Droplet during Cryopreservation
Jochem G. Meijer, Pallav Kant, Duco van Buuren, and Detlef Lohse
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 214002 (2023)