Evidence of Stranski-Krastanov growth at the initial stage of atmospheric water condensation

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Song, Jie ^a,b   Li, Qiang ^a   Wang, Xiaofeng ^c   Li, Jingyuan ^c   Zhang, Shuai ^a   Kjems, Jørgen ^a   Besenbacher, Flemming ^a   Dong, Mingdong ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADLAYER; GRAPHENE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CONDENSATION; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; HYDROPHOBICITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REWETTING; WATER VAPOR;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRECIPITATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; STRANSKI KRASTANOV GROWTH MODEL; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER TRANSPORT;

EID: 84921363957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5837     Document Type: Article

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