Droplet Mobility Manipulation on Porous Media Using Backpressure

Langmuir

Volumn 32, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 5250-5258

  Vourdas, N ^a   Pashos, G ^b   Kokkoris, G ^b,c   Boudouvis, A G ^b   Stathopoulos, V N ^a  

^a Technological Educational Institute of Sterea Ellada   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEIONIZED WATER; HYDROPHOBICITY; PHASE INTERFACES; POROUS MATERIALS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; WAVE PROPAGATION; WETTING;

ANALYTICAL CALCULATION; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; FORWARD WAVE PROPAGATION; MOMENTUM CONSERVATIONS; RECEDING CONTACT LINES; REVERSIBLE TRANSITIONS; SOLID-LIQUID INTERFACES;

DROPS;

EID: 84973299439     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b00900     Document Type: Article

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