Suppressing the Rayleigh–Plateau Instability in Field-Directed Colloidal Assembly
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Interfacial and Hydrodynamic Behavior of Thin Spherical Bubbles of Smectic Liquid Crystal in Microgravity
The Observation and Analysis of Smectic Islands in Space (OASIS) project comprises a series of experiments that probe the interfacial and hydrodynamic behavior of thin spherical bubbles of smectic liquid crystal in microgravity. Smectic films are the thinnest known structures formed of condensed phases, making them ideal for studies of two-dimensional (2D) coarsening dynamics and thermocapillary phenomena. The OASIS flight hardware was launched on SpaceX-6 in April 2015 and experiments were carried out on the International Space Station using four different smectic A and C liquid crystal materials in separate sample chambers. We will describe the behavior of collective island dynamics on the bubbles, including temperature-gradient-induced thermomigration, 2D Rayleigh-Plateau Instability, Oswald ripening dynamics, the single and multiple island diffusion on the curved surface and coalescence-driven coarsening dynamics of island emulsions in microgravity. On Earth, such island emulsions would rapidly sediment to the bottom of the bubble and coalesce, but in microgravity, coarsening of the emulsion can be observed free of gravitational effects.
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