Wetting Phenomena on the Nanometer Scale

Nanoscale Liquid Interfaces: Wetting, Patterning and Force Microscopy at the Molecular Scale

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 83-154

  Dietrich, S ^a   Rauscher, M ^b   Napiorkowski M ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

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