Surface tension mediated conversion of light to work

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 131, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 5396-5398

  Okawa, David ^a   Pastine, Stefan J ^a   Zettl, Alex ^a,b   Fréchet, Jean M J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; CONTROLLED MOTIONS; ENERGY COLLECTION; ENERGY DEMANDS; LINEAR MOTION; NANOSTRUCTURED COMPOSITES; ROTATIONAL MOTION; SURFACE TENSION GRADIENT;

SURFACE TENSION;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ARTICLE; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY CONVERSION; MOTION; ROTATION; SUNLIGHT; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURFACE TENSION; WORK; ENERGY RESOURCE; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOLAR ENERGY;

NANOCOMPOSITE;

ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; MOTION; NANOCOMPOSITES; PHYSICAL PROCESSES; ROTATION; SOLAR ENERGY; SUNLIGHT; SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 67849088794     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja900130n     Document Type: Article

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