Open-atmosphere sustenance of highly volatile attoliter-size droplets on surfaces

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 33, 2013, Pages 13255-13260

  Galliker, Patrick ^a   Schneider, Julian ^a   Rüthemann, Lukas ^a   Poulikakos, Dimos ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Digital microfluidics; Noncontact printing; Sessile droplets

Indexed keywords

INK; NANOPARTICLE; VOLATILE AGENT;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUID; MICROFLUIDICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOLUTE; SURFACE PROPERTY; VAPORIZATION;

DIGITAL MICROFLUIDICS; NONCONTACT PRINTING; SESSILE DROPLETS;

INTERFEROMETRY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 84882346573     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1305886110     Document Type: Article

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