Dissolution of a liquid microdroplet in a nonideal liquid-liquid mixture far from thermodynamic equilibrium

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Poesio, Pietro ^a   Beretta, Gian Paolo ^a   Thorsen, Todd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK PHASE; COMBINED EFFECT; DYNAMICAL BEHAVIORS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; LIQUID-LIQUIDS; MICRO DROPLETS; NON EQUILIBRIUM; NONIDEAL; NONIDEALITY; THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA;

DISSOLUTION; DROP FORMATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; PHASE INTERFACES; THERMODYNAMICS;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 68649125061     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.064501     Document Type: Article

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