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Article Dans Une Revue Soft Matter Année : 2023

Coarsening transitions of wet liquid foams under microgravity conditions

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We report foam coarsening studies which were performed in the International Space Station (ISS) to suppress drainage due to gravity. Foams and bubbly liquids with controlled liquid fractions ϕ between 15 and 50% were investigated to study the transition between bubble growth laws previously reported near the dry limit ϕ → 0 and the dilute limit ϕ → 1 (Ostwald ripening). We determined the coarsening rates for the driest foams and the bubbly liquids, they are in close agreement with theoretical predictions. We observe a sharp cross-over between the respective laws at a critical value ϕ*. At liquid fractions beyond this transition, neighboring bubbles are no longer all in contact, like at a jamming transition. Remarkably ϕ* is significantly larger than the random close packing volume fraction of the bubbles ϕrcp which was determined independently. We attribute the differences between ϕ* and ϕrcp to a weakly adhesive bubble interaction that we have studied in complementary ground-based experiments.
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Marina Pasquet, Nicolo Galvani, Alice Requier, Sylvie Cohen-Addad, Reinhard Höhler, et al.. Coarsening transitions of wet liquid foams under microgravity conditions. Soft Matter, 2023, 19 (33), pp.6267-6279. ⟨10.1039/D3SM00535F⟩. ⟨hal-04236081⟩
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