Imbibition in mesoporous silica: Rheological concepts and experiments on water and a liquid crystal

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 23, Issue 18, 2011, Pages

  Gruener, Simon ^a,b   Huber, Patrick ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEARING POINT; FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS; GRAVIMETRIC STUDY; MESOPOROUS SILICA; MOLECULAR ALIGNMENT; MOLECULAR STACKS; MONOLITHIC SILICA; NEMATIC PHASE; ORDERING PHENOMENA; PARANEMATIC PHASE; PORE WALL; POROUS HOSTS; SMECTIC PHASE; SPONTANEOUS IMBIBITION; SQUARE ROOTS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; VELOCITY BOUNDARY CONDITION; VELOCITY GRADIENTS;

EXPERIMENTS; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

SILICA;

SILICON DIOXIDE; WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLOW KINETICS; LIQUID CRYSTAL; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDICS; PHYSICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROFLUIDICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYSICS; RHEOLOGY; SILICON DIOXIDE; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 79955525767     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/23/18/184109     Document Type: Article

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