A polymer microdevice for tensiometry of insoluble components

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 87, Issue , 2014, Pages 80-83

  Gijsenbergh, Pieter ^a   Pepicelli, Martina ^a,b   Wirth, Christopher L ^a   Vermant, Jan ^a,b   Puers, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Interfacial rheology; MEMS; SU 8; Surface pressure

Indexed keywords

AIR; COPOLYMERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MEMS; SURFACE TENSION; TRANSDUCERS;

AIR WATER INTERFACES; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; INTERFACIAL RHEOLOGY; LANGMUIR TROUGH; SU-8; SURFACE PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS; SURFACE PRESSURES; WILHELMY PLATE;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 84923385265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18777058     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2014.11.270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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