Wetting the surface: From self-cleaning leaves to energy storage devices

Bionanotechnology: Global Prospects

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 177-186

  Lifton, V A ^a   Simon, S ^a  

^a mPhase Technologies Inc   (United States)

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