Polyhedral liquid droplets: Recent advances in elucidation and application

O Marin, M Tkachev, E Sloutskin, M Deutsch - Current Opinion in Colloid & …, 2020 - Elsevier
The rediscovery of temperature-controlled self-faceting, sha**, and splitting transitions in
liquid oil-in-water emulsion droplets, has recently led to a significant progress in the …

Topology-driven surface patterning of liquid spheres

S Das, AV Butenko, Y Mastai, M Deutsch, E Sloutskin - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Surfaces of classical spherical liquid droplets are isotropic, promoting the random
distribution of surface-adsorbed molecules. Here we demonstrate a counterintuitive …

Sphere-to-Icosahedron Droplet Shape Transformations in Interfacially Frozen Pickering Emulsions

AV Butenko, E Hsu, DA Matoz-Fernandez, L Shool… - ACS …, 2025 - ACS Publications
Surfactant-stabilized oil-in-water and water-in-oil emulsions, encompassing a wide range of
chemical compositions, exhibit remarkable temperature-controlled sphere-to-icosahedron …

“Magic Numbers” in Self‐Faceting of Alcohol‐Doped Emulsion Droplets

S Hacmon, SR Liber, L Shool, AV Butenko, A Atkins… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Oil‐in‐water emulsion droplets spontaneously adopt, below some temperature Td,
counterintuitive faceted and complex non‐spherical shapes while remaining liquid. This …

Salt-induced stability and modified interfacial energetics in self-faceting emulsion droplets

PM Nanikashvili, AV Butenko, M Deutsch, D Lee… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypothesis The counterintuitive temperature-controlled self-faceting of water-suspended,
surfactant-stabilized, liquid oil droplets provides new opportunities in engineering of smart …

Polyhedral water droplets: shape transitions and mechanism

SR Liber, O Marin, AV Butenko, R Ron… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
While classical liquid droplets are rounded, transitions have recently been discovered which
render polyhedral water-suspended droplets of several oils. Yet, the mechanism of these …

Binary colloidal clusters with quantum dots for nanoscopic device applications

W Jung, YS Cho - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Colloidal clusters have garnered significant interest for their ability to elucidate nanoscopic
phenomena in atomic arrangements and to enable the fabrication of complex …

Carbonated water droplet can ease dust mitigation from hydrophobic surfaces

AA Abubakar, BS Yilbas, H Al-Qahtani, G Hassan - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
Carbonated water droplets can ease the difficulties faced by distilled water droplets
mitigating dust particles from hydrophobic surfaces. Rising of CO2 bubbles in carbonated …

Controlling clouds-to-scars dislocations' transitions on spherical crystal shells

S Davidyan, DA Matoz-Fernandez, AV Butenko… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
The closed topology of spherical crystals renders the presence of topological defects
inevitable. These defects can organize in a plethora of different structures, such as “clouds” …

Spontaneous particle desorption and “Gorgon” drop formation from particle-armored oil drops upon cooling

D Cholakova, Z Valkova, S Tcholakova, N Denkov… - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We study how the phenomenon of drop “self-sha**”(Denkov et al., Nature, 528, 2015,
392), in which oily emulsion drops undergo a spontaneous series of shape transformations …