Altering Emulsion Stability with Heterogeneous Surface Wettability

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Meng, Qiang ^a   Zhang, Yali ^b   Li, Jiang ^a   Lammertink, Rob G H ^b   Chen, Haosheng ^c   Tsai, Peichun Amy ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 84973340167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep26953     Document Type: Article

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