Stretching polymers in droplet-pinch-off experiments

Physical Review X

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Ingremeau, F ^a   Kellay, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; ELONGATIONAL VISCOSITY; EXTENSIONAL PROPERTIES; FILAMENT DYNAMICS; MACROSCOPIC QUANTITIES; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; OPTICAL SCREENING; POLYMER EXTENSION;

BIOPOLYMERS; DYNAMICS; VISCOSITY;

DROPS;

EID: 84893635245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.3.041002     Document Type: Article

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