Uni-, bi-, and tri-directional wetting caused by nanostructures with anisotropic surface energies

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 30, 2012, Pages 11048-11055

  Lai, Chang Quan ^a   Thompson, Carl V ^d   Choi, Wee Kiong ^a,b,c  

^a SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC SURFACE ENERGY; ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS; COATING NANOSTRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURE SURFACE; PINNING FORCES; PRECISE CONTROL; SINGLE-AXIS; STRUCTURAL ANISOTROPY; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES; TRIPLE-PHASE CONTACT LINE;

ANISOTROPY; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; NANOSTRUCTURES;

WETTING;

NANOMATERIAL;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; WETTABILITY;

ANISOTROPY; NANOSTRUCTURES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WETTABILITY;

EID: 84864447487     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la301956q     Document Type: Article

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