Capillary instability on a hydrophilic stripe

A recent experiment showed that cylindrical segments of water filling a hydrophilic stripe on an otherwise hydrophobic surface display a capillary instability when their volume is increased beyond the critical volume at which their apparent contact angle on the surface reaches 90° (Gau et al 1999 Sc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Speth, Raymond L., Lauga, Eric
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70536