Spreading and fragmenting of a drop of isopropyl alcohol and water (blue) on a layer of sunflower oil (gray). Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion and for a Focus story in Physics.

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Marangoni Bursting: Evaporation-Induced Emulsification of Binary Mixtures on a Liquid Layer
L. Keiser, H. Bense, P. Colinet, J. Bico, and E. Reyssat
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 074504 (2017)

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