Morphological wetting transitions at ring-shaped surface domains

Langmuir

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 11878-11885

  Schäfle, Claudia ^a   Brinkmann, Martin ^b   Bechinger, Clemens ^c   Leiderer, Paul ^d   Lipowsky, Reinhard ^e  

^a Rosenheim University of Applied Science   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXISYMMETRIC; BROAD RING; CHARACTERISTIC SEQUENCE; DROPLET SHAPE; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; INTERFACIAL FREE ENERGY; LIQUID CHANNELS; LIQUID DROPLETS; LIQUID VOLUME; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; SMALL DROPLETS; SURFACE DOMAINS; VOLUME CHANGE; WETTING BEHAVIOR; WETTING TRANSITIONS;

DISKS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); DROP FORMATION; MORPHOLOGY; WETTING;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 77956683188     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la1011023     Document Type: Article

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