Capillarity-driven dynamics of water-alcohol mixtures in nanofluidic channels

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 123-129

  Oh, Jung Min ^a   Faez, Telli ^a   De Beer, Sissi ^a   Mugele, Frieder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capillary forces; Interferometry; Mixtures; Nanochannel; Nanofluidics

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC RELATIONS; BOTTOM WALL; BULK PROPERTIES; BULK SURFACES; CAPILLARY FORCE; CAPILLARY FORCES; CHANNEL WALL; CHEMICAL SELECTIVITY; EMBEDDED METALS; NANO CHANNELS; NANOCHANNEL; NANOFLUIDIC CHANNEL; OPTICAL MICROSCOPES; PREFACTORS; SPECIFIC ADSORPTION; SURFACE-TO-VOLUME RATIO; WATER-ALCOHOL MIXTURES;

ADSORPTION; CAPILLARITY; ETHANOL; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MIXTURES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE TENSION;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 77953619234     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-009-0517-3     Document Type: Article

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