Controlled drop emission by wetting properties in driven liquid filaments

Nature Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 367-371

  Ledesma Aguilar, R ^a,b   Nistal, R ^a   Hernandez Machado A ^a   Pagonabarraga, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; WETTING;

CRITICAL VELOCITIES; DESTABILIZATION MECHANISMS; EMISSION MECHANISM; HYDROPHILIC AND HYDROPHOBIC; MICROFLUIDIC GEOMETRY; QUALITATIVE DIFFERENCES; STRONG DEPENDENCES; TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS;

DROPS;

EID: 79955021419     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2998     Document Type: Article

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