Curvature-Dependent Surface Tension of a Growing Droplet

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Moody, Michael P ^a   Attard, Phil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; DROP FORMATION; FREE ENERGY; NUCLEATION; SUPERSATURATION; SURFACE TENSION;

GHOST INTERFACE;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 0041917409     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.056104     Document Type: Article

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