Electroformation of janus and patchy capsules

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Rozynek, Zbigniew ^a,b   Mikkelsen, Alexander ^a   Dommersnes, Paul ^c,d   Fossum, Jon Otto ^a,d  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^d CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOID; HETEROGENEITY; PERMEABILITY; SHELL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COLLOID; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROFORMATION; EMULSION; HYDRODYNAMICS; JANUS CAPSULE; MICROCAPSULE; PARTICLE SIZE; PATCHY CAPSULE; PERMEABILITY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84901421558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4945     Document Type: Article

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