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Kerstin Koch1, Roland Grichnik2

  • 1Faculty of Life Sciences, Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Marie Curie-Straße 1, 47533 Kleve, Germany koch@hochschule-rhein-waal.de.

Philosophical Transactions. Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences
|June 30, 2016
PubMed

Keywords:
aerosolbiomimetic surfacesdynamic wettingsplashingsuperhydrophilic

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