Morphing and vectoring impacting droplets by means of wettability-engineered surfaces

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages 7029-

  Schutzius, Thomas M ^a,b   Graeber, Gustav ^c   Elsharkawy, Mohamed ^a   Oreluk, James ^d   Megaridis, Constantine M ^a  

^a 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84922511652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07029     Document Type: Article

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