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Nature Physics 3, 679 - 680 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nphys735
Subject Category: Fluid dynamics
Fluid Dynamics: The invisible jet
Osman A. Basaran1 & Ronald Suryo1
- Osman A. Basaran and Ronald Suryo are in the School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA.
Correspondence to: Osman A. Basaran1 e-mail: obasaran@purdue.edu
Abstract
Generating droplets below a micrometre in size from the break-up of a liquid jet or droplet usually requires surfactants or electric fields. By simply focusing one jet with a pair of coaxial ones, this could be extended down to the nanoscale.
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