Drop formation by thermal fluctuations at an ultralow surface tension

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 24, 2006, Pages

  Hennequin, Y ^a   Aarts, D G A L ^b,c   Van Der Wiel, J H ^b   Wegdam, G ^a   Eggers, J ^d   Lekkerkerker, H N W ^b   Bonn, Daniel ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROP BREAKUP; HYDRODYNAMICS; PINCH EFFECT; SURFACE TENSION; THERMAL NOISE; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

HYDRODYNAMIC MOTION; NANOFLUIDICS; SATELLITE DROPLETS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

DROP FORMATION;

EID: 33845527930     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.244502     Document Type: Article

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