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Floating mechanism of a small liquid marble

Flotation of small solid objects and liquid droplets on water is critical to natural and industrial activities. This paper reports the floating mechanism of liquid marbles, or liquid droplets coated with hydrophobic microparticles. We used X-ray computed tomography (XCT) to acquire cross-sectional i...

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Autores principales: Ooi, Chin Hong, Plackowski, Chris, Nguyen, Anh V., Vadivelu, Raja K., John, James A. St., Dao, Dzung Viet, Nguyen, Nam-Trung
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4763244/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26902930
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep21777