Buoyant droplets on functional fibers

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 37, 2012, Pages 13300-13306

  De Ruiter, Riëlle ^a   De Ruiter, Jolet ^a   Eral, Hüseyin Burak ^a   Semprebon, Ciro ^b   Brinkmann, Martin ^b,c   Mugele, Frieder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXISYMMETRIC; CAPILLARY LENGTH; CYLINDRICAL SYMMETRY; DROPLET SIZES; DROPLET VOLUME; ELECTRO WETTING; EXTERNAL VOLUME; FUNCTIONAL FIBERS; GRAVITATIONAL FORCES; PARAMETER SPACES; PARTIAL DETACHMENT; STABILITY LIMIT; WETTING LIQUIDS;

BUOYANCY; CONTACT ANGLE; FIBERS; MORPHOLOGY; WETTING;

DROPS;

EID: 84866374309     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la302726z     Document Type: Article

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