Small is beautiful, and dry

Science China: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2245-2259

  Zheng, Quanshui ^a,b   Lv, Cunjing ^a   Hao, Pengfei ^a   Sheridan, John ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

contact angle; line tension; scale effect; superhydrophobic; wetting

Indexed keywords

AIR PACKETS; ANIMAL SPECIES; APPARENT CONTACT AREA; ARTIFICIAL SUPERHYDROPHOBIC SURFACES; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCES; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; LINE TENSION; NATURALLY OCCURRING; ROUGHNESS SCALE; SCALE EFFECTS; SMALL SCALE; SUBMICRON RANGE; SUBMICRON SIZE; SUPER-HYDROPHOBIC SURFACES; SUPERHYDROPHOBIC; SUPERHYDROPHOBICITY; SURFACE ENERGIES; WATER REPELLANT SURFACES;

CONTACT ANGLE; HYDROPHOBICITY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WETTING;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 78649742510     PISSN: 16747348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11433-010-4172-1     Document Type: Article

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