Abstract
We report hydrodynamic instabilities in thin lipid-water films on a hydrophilic solid substrate (asymmetric soap film), stabilized vertically and in contact to a film balance in a surrounding of saturated humidity. A solitary wave is generated by pushing a lipid monolayer onto the water film. The experimental data fit to a long wave expansion theory by including the Marangoni effect.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3150-3154 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Langmuir |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 12 |
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| State | Published - 1 Dec 1992 |