Directional and path-finding motion of polymer hydrogels driven by liquid mixing

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 31, 2012, Pages 11276-11280

  Wang, Yongxin ^a,b   Liu, Xiaofang ^a,b   Li, Xiaofeng ^a   Wu, Junjie ^a,b   Long, Yuhua ^a   Zhao, Ning ^a   Xu, Jian ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUIDS; MICROFLUIDICS; MIXING; SURFACE TENSION;

CONVECTIVE FLOW; DIRECTIONAL MOTION; DRIVING CONDITIONS; GRADIENT OF SURFACE TENSION; MARANGONI EFFECTS; MISCIBLE LIQUIDS; POLYMER HYDROGELS; SUBMERGED OBJECT;

HYDROGELS;

EID: 84864701892     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la301972r     Document Type: Article

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