A route toward digital manipulation of water nanodroplets on surfaces

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3955-3960

  Cheng, Meng ^a   Wang, Duoming ^a   Sun, Zhaoru ^b   Zhao, Jing ^a   Yang, Rong ^a   Wang, Guole ^a   Yang, Wei ^a   Xie, Guibai ^a   Zhang, Jing ^a   Chen, Peng ^a   He, Congli ^a   Liu, Donghua ^a   Xu, Limei ^b   Shi, Dongxia ^a   Wang, Enge ^b   Zhang, Guangyu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

atomic force microscope; graphene cover; ice like layer; molecular dynamics simulation; nanofluidic manipulation

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; GRAPHENE; MICA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

DIGITAL MANIPULATION; ICE-LIKE LAYER; LUBRICANT LAYERS; MICA SURFACES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANOFLUIDIC SYSTEMS; PROTECTION LAYERS; WATER NANODROPLETS;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84899465337     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn500873q     Document Type: Article

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