Optimal design of permeable fiber network structures for fog harvesting

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 43, 2013, Pages 13269-13277

  Park, Kyoo Chul ^a   Chhatre, Shreerang S ^a,b   Srinivasan, Siddarth ^a   Cohen, Robert E ^a   McKinley, Gareth H ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL FEATURES; DESIGN CHARTS; FIBER NETWORKS; FOG COLLECTIONS; OPTIMAL DESIGN; RE-ENTRAINMENT; SURFACE WETTABILITY; WETTING CHARACTERISTICS;

COLLECTOR EFFICIENCY; DROPS; HARVESTING; OPTIMIZATION; POTABLE WATER; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; WETTING;

FOG;

PL 732; POLYENE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; WEATHER; WETTABILITY;

HYDRODYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYENES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER; WEATHER; WETTABILITY;

EID: 84886620814     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la402409f     Document Type: Article

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