Uni-directional liquid spreading on asymmetric nanostructured surfaces

Nature Materials

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 413-417

  Chu, Kuang Han ^a   Xiao, Rong ^a   Wang, Evelyn N ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOCHIPS; CONTACT ANGLE; LIQUID FILMS; LIQUIDS; MICROARRAYS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

ANISOTROPIC WETTING; CHEMICAL PATTERNING; LEFT-RIGHT SYMMETRY; NANOSTRUCTURED SURFACE; SPREADING CHARACTERISTICS; SURFACE ENGINEERING; THIN FILM LUBRICATION; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES;

WETTING;

EID: 77951621234     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2726     Document Type: Article

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