Surface tension-driven self-folding polyhedra

Langmuir

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 8747-8751

  Leong, Timothy G ^a   Lester, Paul A ^a   Koh, Travis L ^a   Call, Emma K ^c   Gracias, David H ^a,b  

^a Johns Hopkins University

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Baltimore Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); OPTIMIZATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

INTERFACIAL FREE ENERGY; PATTERNED POLYHEDRA;

SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 34548086829     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la700913m     Document Type: Article

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