Behavior of a liquid drop between two nonparallel plates

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 28, 2014, Pages 8373-8380

  Luo, Cheng ^a   Heng, Xin ^a   Xiang, Mingming ^a  

^a University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY;

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; LIQUID DROP; NEW RESULTS; PHYSICAL MODEL; TWO PLATES;

DROPS;

EID: 84904613517     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la500512e     Document Type: Article

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