Pattern formation in binary fluids confined between rough, chemically heterogeneous surfaces

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 18, 2004, Pages

  Verberg, R ^a   Pooley, C M ^a   Yeomans, J M ^b   Balazs, Anna C ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; DRUG PRODUCTS PLANTS; FLOW PATTERNS; MORPHOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ASPERITIES; MESOSCALE MODELS; MICROCONTACT PRINTING; PATTERN FORMATION;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 19744382071     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.184501     Document Type: Article

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