Floating on oil

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 35, 2014, Pages 10637-10642

  Zhang, Jihua ^a,b   Deng, Xu ^a,c   Butt, Hans Jürgen ^a   Vollmer, Doris ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS AND PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY;

ARTIFICIAL DEVICES; CAPILLARY FORCE; LOADING CAPACITIES; N-HEXADECANE; ORGANIC LIQUID; STEEL MESHES; SUPPORTING FORCES; WATER LILIES;

LOADING;

EID: 84917688406     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la502426x     Document Type: Article

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