Process model for latex film formation: Limiting regimes for individual driving forces

Langmuir

Volumn 15, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 7762-7773

  Routh, Alexander F ^a   Russel, William B ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVAPORATION; LATEXES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RHEOLOGY; SURFACE TENSION; THERMAL EFFECTS; VISCOELASTICITY;

FRENKEL'S MODEL;

PLASTIC FILMS;

EID: 0033356449     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la9903090     Document Type: Article

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