Superspreading: Aqueous surfactant drops spreading on hydrophobic surfaces

Langmuir

Volumn 18, Issue 26, 2002, Pages 10486-10488

  Rafaï, Salima ^a   Sarker, Dipak ^a   Bergeron, Vance ^a   Meunier, Jacques ^a   Bonn, Daniel ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; CONTACT ANGLE; DEPOSITION; HYDROPHOBICITY; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE TENSION;

MOLAR MASS; TANNER LAW; TRISILOXANE;

SURFACE PHENOMENA;

EID: 0037168710     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la020271i     Document Type: Article

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