How coalescing droplets jump

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 10352-10362

  Enright, Ryan ^a,b,e   Miljkovic, Nenad ^b,c   Sprittles, James ^d   Nolan, Kevin ^a   Mitchell, Robert ^b,f   Wang, Evelyn N ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^f INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

coalescence; condensation; droplet jumping; microfluidics; nanostructured surface design; superhydrophobic; wetting

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; CONDENSATION; DESALINATION; DROPS; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; FLOCCULATION; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; MICROFLUIDICS; SUPERHYDROPHOBICITY; THERMAL ENGINEERING; THERMAL POLLUTION; WATER FILTRATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL;

DROPLET COALESCENCE; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION CONTROL; MICROFLUIDIC PLATFORMS; NANOSTRUCTURED SURFACE; SURFACE ENGINEERING; WATER CONDENSATION; WATER DESALINATION;

WETTING;

EID: 84908425717     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn503643m     Document Type: Article

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