Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4156–4159 (2000)Ripening of Ordered Breath FiguresReceived 12 October 1999; published in the issue dated 1 May 2000 We have investigated the ripening of breath figures with variable initial order. A dramatic impact of the degree of order on the coalescence behavior is observed. As opposed to the two-droplet coalescence events common to the usual disordered droplet arrays, four-droplet coalescence cascades predominate in a perfectly hexagonal breath figure. Upon introduction of disorder, a gradual transition to a regime dominated by three-droplet cascades is observed. The statistics of coalescence cascades allows for detailed conclusions on the microscopic droplet dynamics. © 2000 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4156
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4156
PACS:
68.45.Gd
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