Linking continuum-scale state of wetting to pore-scale contact angles in porous media.

@article{Sun2019LinkingCS,
  title={Linking continuum-scale state of wetting to pore-scale contact angles in porous media.},
  author={Chenhao Sun and James E. McClure and Peyman Mostaghimi and Anna L. Herring and Mehdi Shabaninejad and Steffen Berg and Ryan T. Armstrong},
  journal={Journal of colloid and interface science},
  year={2019},
  volume={561},
  pages={
          173-180
        }
}
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