Abstract
We present a quantitative study of the two-dimensional dendritic growth of liquid-condensed domains observed by fluoresence microscopy in Langmuir monolayers of D-myristoyl alanine. The geometrical analysis of the dendrite tip region shows that the predicted relationship V/D=const (V is the tip growth velocity, ρ the top curvature radius, the capillary length, and D the diffusion coefficient) is reasonably verified. The determination of this constant yields an estimate of the line tension anisotropy.
- Received 6 August 1992
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.46.R4504
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