Wetting phenomena in nanofluidics

Annual Review of Materials Research

Volumn 38, Issue , 2008, Pages 143-172

  Rauscher, M ^a,b   Dietrich, S ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dewetting; Hydrodynamic slip; Nanochannels; Thermal fluctuations

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; NANOFLUIDICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; WETTING;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONING; DEWETTING; DISPERSION FORCES; ELECTRICAL DOUBLE LAYERS; HYDRODYNAMIC EQUATIONS; HYDRODYNAMIC SLIP; MICRO-METER SCALE; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; NANO SCALING; NANOCHANNELS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

FLUID MECHANICS;

EID: 50249165488     PISSN: 15317331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.matsci.38.060407.132451     Document Type: Article

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