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Polyhedral Emulsion Particles

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IT would appear to be an implicit assumption that the disperse phase particles of an emulsion system are spherical droplets1,2. This generalization has been a convenient starting point for investigations of emulsions such as, for example, those of Lawrence and Mills3.

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GROVES, M., SCARLETT, B. Polyhedral Emulsion Particles. Nature 207, 288–289 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/207288b0

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