"Self-Shaping" of Multicomponent Drops

Langmuir

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 2017, Pages 5696-5706

  Cholakova, DIana ^a   Valkova, Zhulieta ^a   Tcholakova, Slavka ^a   Denkov, Nikolai ^a   Smoukov, Stoyan K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; EMULSIFICATION; FREEZING; MIXTURES; MOLECULES; PARAFFINS; PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

ALKANE MIXTURES; LENGTH DIFFERENCE; MULTICOMPONENTS; POLYGONAL SHAPES; PURE SUBSTANCES; SELF EMULSIFICATION; SINGLE COMPONENTS; SYSTEMATIC STUDY;

DROPS;

EID: 85020696213     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b01153     Document Type: Article

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