Self-assembly of spherical particles on an evaporating sessile droplet

Langmuir

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 4547-4551

  Schnall Levin, Michael ^a   Lauga, Eric ^a   Brenner, Michael P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRICAL CONSTRAINTS; LIQUID DROPLET; SOLID SUBSTRATE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL PACKINGS;

CHARGED PARTICLES; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONTACT ANGLE; EVAPORATION; PACKING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

EID: 33744815895     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la052921z     Document Type: Article

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