Polygonal Networks Resulting From Dewetting

摘要

The occurence of polygonal structures is widespread in nature [1]. Extensive investigations on the statistics of two-dimensional networks have been performed for biological tissues [2,3], clusters of metal grains [4,5], systems of soap bubbles [6,7,8], emulsion lattices [9], gas bubbles in Langmuir monolayers [10], magnetic froth [11] or convective patterns in hydrodynamics [12,13,14]. The strong similarity between structure and evolution of two-dimensional soap froth and grain boundary networks has become subject of growing interest [15,16,17,6].