Capillary filling in nanochannels : modeling, fabrication and experiments

• Main Authors: Phan, Vinh-Nguyen, Joseph, Pierre, Djeghlaf, Lyes, Allouch, Alaa el dine, Bourrier, David, Abgrall, Patrick, Gue, Anne-Marie, Yang, Chun, Nguyen, Nam-Trung
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/93883; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7771
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

While capillary filling in channels of micrometers scale is experimentally verified to obey Washburn's law well, the speed of capillary filling in nanochannels is noticeably lower than described by Washburn's formula. This article reports the theoretical and experimental results on capilla...