Pattern formation of drying lyotropic liquid crystalline droplet
- 24 November 2016
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in RSC Advances
- Vol. 6 (113), 112695-112703
- https://doi.org/10.1039/C6RA22579A
Abstract
We present a study of pattern formation in drying sessile droplets of aqueous solutions of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB)–water system using polarising optical microscopy (POM) and computer simulation.This publication has 38 references indexed in Scilit:
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