Geometry-induced asymmetric capillary flow

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 5448-5454

  Shou, Dahua ^a   Ye, Lin ^a   Fan, Jintu ^b,c   Fu, Kunkun ^a   Mei, Maofei ^c   Wang, Hongjian ^a   Chen, Qing ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design College of Human Ecology Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS;

FLOW-TIME; MULTI-SECTION; OPTIMAL PARAMETER; POROUS LAYERS; POROUS MEDIUM; POROUS SYSTEM; SQUARE ROOTS;

CAPILLARITY;

POROSITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; POROSITY;

EID: 84901020382     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la500479e     Document Type: Article

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