Pouring oil on troubled waters – scientists solve secrets of the water-oil interface

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Understanding the oil-water interface will be useful in many areas including designing better detergents.
Understanding the oil-water interface will be useful in many areas, including designing better detergents.

(PhysOrg.com) -- When oil and water are poured together they meet each other head-on to form a strong and rigid boundary between each other, says new research into how interactions between oil and water work, out this week in Physical Review Letters.


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