Superphobicity/philicity janus fabrics with switchable, spontaneous, directional transport ability to water and oil fluids

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhou, Hua ^a   Wang, Hongxia ^a   Niu, Haitao ^a   Lin, Tong ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84906259915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02964     Document Type: Article

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