Complete wetting of curved microscopic channels

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 125, Issue 14, 2006, Pages

  Bruschi, Lorenzo ^a   Fois, Giovanni ^a   Mistura, Giampaolo ^a   Tormen, Massimo ^b   Garbin, Valeria ^b   Di Fabrizio, Enzo ^b,c   Gerardino, Annamaria ^d   Natali, Marco ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

^d IFN CNR   (Italy)

^e CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCAVE CHANNELS; GROWTH EXPONENT; LIQUID VAPOR BULK COEXISTENCE; SCALING THEORY;

ADSORPTION; CHANNEL FLOW; GROWTH KINETICS; WETTING;

MICROSTRUCTURE;

EID: 33749993183     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2355669     Document Type: Article

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