Fingering Instabilities in Dewetting Nanofluids

The growth of fingering patterns in dewetting nanofluids (colloidal solutions of thiol-passivated gold nanoparticles) has been followed in real time using contrast-enhanced video microscopy. The fingering instability on which we focus here arises from evaporatively-driven nucleation and growth a na...

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Main Authors: Pauliac-Vaujour, E, Stannard, A, Martin, CP, Blunt, MO, Notingher, I, Moriarty, P, Vancea, I, Thiele, U
Format: Article
Published: American Physical Society 2008
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/903/