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Reactive Vapor Deposition of Conjugated Polymer Films on Arbitrary Substrates
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Reactive Vapor Deposition of Conjugated Polymer Films on Arbitrary Substrates

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Evaporation of water droplets on polymer surfaces

Jung-Hoon Kim1, Sung Il Ahn, Jae Hyun Kim

  • 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, Korea.

Langmuir : the ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids
|May 1, 2007
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