Critical conditions for the wetting of soils

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Shirtcliffe, Neil J ^a   McHale, Glen ^a   Newton, Michael I ^a   Pyatt, F Brian ^a   Doerr, Stefan H ^b  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACT ANGLE; EROSION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MICROORGANISMS; WATER; WETTING;

SOIL BIOTA; SOIL HYDROPHOBICITY; SOIL WETTABILITY; SOIL WETTING BEHAVIOR MODELING;

SOILS;

EID: 33748267469     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2339072     Document Type: Article

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