Self-assembly of highly ordered structures enabled by controlled evaporation of confined microfluids

Evaporative Self-Assembly of Ordered Complex Structures

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 295-350

  Byun, Myunghwan ^a   Lin, Zhiqu ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; EVAPORATION; LITHOGRAPHY; MICROELECTRONICS; POLYMERS; SELF ASSEMBLY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SUBSTRATES;

CONTROLLED EVAPORATION; FINGERING INSTABILITIES; HIGHLY ORDERED STRUCTURE; INTERFACIAL INTERACTION; LARGE SCALE STRUCTURES; MICRO-FABRICATION TECHNOLOGY; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE; SOLUTION CONCENTRATION;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 84904113432     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9789814304696_0007     Document Type: Chapter

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