Droplet coalescence process under electric fields in an immiscible polymer blend

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Aida, Kohei ^a   Na, Yang Ho ^a   Nagaya, Tomoyuki ^b   Orihara, Hiroshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; CONFOCAL SCANNING LASER MICROSCOPE; DROPLET COALESCENCE; DROPLET GROWTH; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS; SPATIAL CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; STEP ELECTRIC FIELDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES;

COALESCENCE; DROP FORMATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 78651248546     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.031805     Document Type: Article

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