Wetting at curved substrates: Non-analytic behavior of interfacial properties

Europhysics Letters

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 815-821

  Evans, R ^a,b   Roth, R ^b,c   Bryk, P ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

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EID: 0038507633     PISSN: 02955075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2003-00445-5     Document Type: Article

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