Measuring the elastic modulus of microgels using microdrops

Soft Matter

Volumn 8, Issue 39, 2012, Pages 10032-10035

  Abate, Adam R ^a,b   Han, Lloyd ^a   Jin, Lihua ^a   Suo, Zhigang ^a   Weitz, David A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMABLE OBJECT; HERTZ CONTACT; LIQUID DROP; MICRO-GELS; MICRODROPS; MICROGEL PARTICLES; OIL WATER INTERFACES;

DEFORMATION; DROPS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; SURFACE TENSION;

GELS;

EID: 84874824668     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c2sm26108a     Document Type: Article

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