Nucleation time of nanoscale water bridges

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 13, 2005, Pages

  Szoszkiewicz, Robert ^a   Riedo, Elisa ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY CONDENSATION; FREQUENCY RANGING; NANOSCALE WATER BRIDGES; WATER CAPILLARIES;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CAPILLARITY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; REACTION KINETICS;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 27144518405     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.135502     Document Type: Article

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