Restoring universality to the pinch-off of a bubble
- aDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139;
- bDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540;
- cDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139;
- dDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
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Edited by Osman A. Basaran, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, and accepted by Editorial Board Member John D. Weeks May 13, 2019 (received for review November 19, 2018)

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- aDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139;
- bDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540;
- cDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139;
- dDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Edited by Osman A. Basaran, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, and accepted by Editorial Board Member John D. Weeks May 13, 2019 (received for review November 19, 2018)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: pahlavan{at}princeton.edu or juanes{at}mit.edu.
Author contributions: A.A.P. and R.J. designed research; A.A.P. performed research; A.A.P., H.A.S., G.H.M., and R.J. analyzed data; and A.A.P., H.A.S., G.H.M., and R.J. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission. O.A.B. is a Guest Editor invited by the Editorial Board.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1819744116/-/DCSupplemental.
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