Nanoparticles Actively Fragment Armored Droplets.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the complexity of fragmentation processes is essential for regulating intercellular communication in mechanistic biology and developing bottom-up approaches in a large range of multiphase flow processes. In this context, self-fragmentation proceeds without any external mechanical energy input, allowing one to create efficiently micro- and nanodroplets. Here we examine self-fragmentation in emulsion nanodroplets stabilized by solid particles with different surface features. Mesoscopic modeling and accelerated dynamics simulations allow us to overcome the limitations of atomistic simulations and offer detailed insight into the interplay between the evolution of the droplet shape and the particle finite-size effects at the interface. We show that finite-size nanoparticles play a

SUBMITTER: Sicard F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7007273 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature