Formation of surface nanodroplets under controlled flow conditions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 30, 2015, Pages 9253-9257

  Zhang, Xuehua ^a,b   Lu, Ziyang ^a   Tan, Huanshu ^a,b   Bao, Lei ^a   He, Yinghe ^c   Sun, Chao ^b   Lohse, Detlef ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Flow condition; Heterogeneous nucleation; Peclet number; Solvent exchange; Surface nanodroplet

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; NANOBUBBLE; OIL; SOLVENT; SURFACE NANODROPLET; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ADSORPTION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTACT ANGLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; FLOW RATE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GEOMETRY; LAMINAR FLOW; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE AREA; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84938118048     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1506071112     Document Type: Article

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