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Film Control to Study Contributions of Waves to Droplet Impact Dynamics on Thin Flowing Liquid Films
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Correction: Nonmonotonic response of drop impacting on liquid film: mechanism and scaling
Xiaoyu Tang1, Abhishek Saha, Chung K Law
1Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA. asaha@princeton.edu.
Soft Matter
|April 21, 2016
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Correction for 'Nonmonotonic response of drop impacting on liquid film: mechanism and scaling' by Xiaoyu Tang et al., Soft Matter, 2016, DOI: 10.1039/c6sm00397d.
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