The creation of electric wind due to the electrohydrodynamic force

Sanghoo Park1, Uros Cvelbar2, Wonho Choe3,4

  • 1Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea.

Nature Communications
|January 27, 2018
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