Nematic films at chemically structured surfaces
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Droplets, bubbles, and vesicles at chemically structured surfaces
Liquid droplets, gas bubbles, and membrane vesicles which are in contact with chemically structured substrate surfaces can undergo morphological transitions or shape transformations. The structured surfaces considered here consist of two types of surface domains, γ and δ, which attract and repel the droplets, bubbles, and vesicles, respectively. For droplets on a striped γ domain, one has to di...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0953-8984,1361-648X
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/aa4fd6