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Surface Tension

Known as: Surface Tensions, Tension, Surface, Tensions, Surface 
The force acting on the surface of a liquid, tending to minimize the area of the surface. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical… Expand
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2019
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2019
Contact angles: From past mistakes to new developments through liquid-solid adhesion measurements.
  • J. Drelich
  • Advances in colloid and interface science
  • 2019
    • Corpus ID: 76664979
A contact angle observed for a liquid-solid system is not necessarily a unique value and a few different contact angles need to… Expand
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2019
Review
2019
Sharp interface approaches and deep learning techniques for multiphase flows
Abstract We present a review on numerical methods for simulating multiphase and free surface flows. We focus in particular on… Expand
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2019
Review
2019
Molecular engineering of polymeric supra-amphiphiles.
Polymeric supra-amphiphiles are amphiphiles that are fabricated by linking polymeric segments, or small molecules and polymeric… Expand
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Review
2018
Review
2018
Physico-chemistry from initial bacterial adhesion to surface-programmed biofilm growth.
Biofilm formation is initiated by adhesion of individual bacteria to a surface. However, surface adhesion alone is not sufficient… Expand
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2018
Review
2018
Biomedical Applications of Electrospun Nanofibers: Drug and Nanoparticle Delivery
The electrospinning process has gained popularity due to its ease of use, simplicity and diverse applications. The properties of… Expand
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2018
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2018
Numerical Models of Surface Tension
Numerical models of surface tension play an increasingly important role in our capacity to understand and predict a wide range of… Expand
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Review
2017
Review
2017
Bubble nucleation in magmas: A dominantly heterogeneous process?
Abstract Bubble nucleation is at the heart of magma ascent and degassing. Nucleation kinetics control how easily a magma exsolves… Expand
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2016
Review
2016
Surfactant Lipids at the Host-Environment Interface. Metabolic Sensors, Suppressors, and Effectors of Inflammatory Lung Disease.
The lipid composition of pulmonary surfactant is unlike that of any other body fluid. This extracellular lipid reservoir is also… Expand
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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Universal solvation model based on solute electron density and on a continuum model of the solvent defined by the bulk dielectric constant and atomic surface tensions.
We present a new continuum solvation model based on the quantum mechanical charge density of a solute molecule interacting with a… Expand
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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
A continuum method for modeling surface tension
Abstract A new method for modeling surface tension effects on fluid motion has been developed. Interfaces between fluids of… Expand
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