Bio-inspired multistructured conical copper wires for highly efficient liquid manipulation

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 8757-8764

  Wang, Qianbin ^a   Meng, Qingan ^a   Chen, Ming ^a   Liu, Huan ^a   Jiang, Lei ^a,b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

bio inspired; conical shape; highly efficient; liquid manipulation; multistructured scale

Indexed keywords

COPPER; EFFICIENCY; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; WIRE;

BIO-INSPIRED; CONICAL SHAPE; HIGHLY EFFICIENT; LIQUID MANIPULATIONS; MULTISTRUCTURED SCALE;

LIQUIDS;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; COPPER;

CHEMISTRY; ELECTRICITY; HAIR; HYDRODYNAMICS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; COPPER; ELECTRICITY; HAIR; HYDRODYNAMICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84925481320     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn503463y     Document Type: Article

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