# Experimental study of forces between quasi-two-dimensional emulsion droplets near jamming

@article{Desmond2013ExperimentalSO,
title={Experimental study of forces between quasi-two-dimensional emulsion droplets near jamming},
author={Kenneth W. Desmond and Pearl J. Young and Dandan Chen and Eric R. Weeks},
journal={Soft Matter},
year={2013},
volume={9},
pages={3424-3436}
}
We experimentally study the jamming of quasi-two-dimensional emulsions. Our experiments consist of oil-in-water emulsion droplets confined between two parallel plates. From the droplet outlines, we can determine the forces between every droplet over a wide range of area fractions ϕ. We study three bidisperse samples that jam at area fractions ϕc ≈ 0.86. Our data show that for ϕ > ϕc, the contact numbers and pressure have power-law dependence on ϕ − ϕc in agreement with the critical scaling…

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