Rapid imbibition of fluids in carbon nanotubes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 2145011-2145014

  Supple, S ^a   Quirke, N ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; WETTING;

SINGLE WALL CARBON NANOTUBES (SWNT);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0038792097     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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