Two hundred years of capillarity research
- 1 March 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics Today
- Vol. 59 (3), 39-44
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2195314
Abstract
Two centuries after seminal work by Pierre-Simon Laplace and Thomas Young, capillarity’s modern applications arise in fields ranging from biology and oceanography to propulsion, materials science, and novel devices.Keywords
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