Movie S2.

The shrinking instability of a torus, observed from above, with an initial aspect ratio ξ≈1.3. The inner liquid is a solution of 0.1 wt% PEG 8,000 in water and the outer liquid is a 60,000 cSt silicone oil. The evolution is in real time.

Shrinking instability of toroidal droplets

Alexandros A. Fragkopoulos, Ekapop Pairam, Eric Berger, Phil N. Segre, and Alberto Fernández-Nieves

PNAS. 2017. 114:2871-2875 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1619073114