Wet stamping of microscale periodic precipitation patterns

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2774-2778

  Bensemann, I T ^a   Fialkowski, M ^a   Grzybowski, B A ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GELATIN; GENERIC SCALING LAWS; PERIODIC PRECIPITATION (PP); WET STAMPING (WETS);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFECTS; DIFFUSION; GELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

EID: 14544272718     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp047885b     Document Type: Article

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