@article{e6c71a765a684e97a626a825006e4ab1,
title = "Pre-empting Plateau: the nature of topological transitions in foam",
abstract = "When the area of a face in a dry foam approaches zero in some quasistatic processes, Plateau's rules dictate that there must be an instability. This is more subtle than generally supposed. We argue that it is generally pre-empted, that is, the instability arises before an unstable multiple vertex is formed. Experiments and calculations which simulate Plateau's wire frame experiments support this view.",
author = "Stefan Hutzler and {van der Net}, Antje and Denis Weaire and Simon Cox and Eric Janiaud",
note = "Hutzler, S., Weaire, D., Cox, S.J., Van der Net, A. and Janiaud, E. (2007) Pre-empting Plateau: the nature of topological transitions in foam. Europhys. Lett. 77: 28002 Sponsorship: EPSRC / ESA / ESTEC / Science Foundation Ireland/ Gulbenkian Foundation",
year = "2007",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1209/0295-5075/77/28002",
language = "English",
volume = "77",
journal = "EPL",
issn = "0295-5075",
publisher = "IOP Publishing",
number = "2",
}