Symbiosis of different-sized drops.
We demonstrate that the usual situation of coarsening in crystal growth or Ostwald ripening in evaporating liquid drops is not universal, and when the drops coexist with a microscopically thin continuous surface film, a different behavior is observed. The predicted behavior was investigated experimentally and supported by numerical simulations.
Leizerson
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Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 32000 Haifa, Israel.
Lipson
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Lyushnin
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