Thermal Gradients (IMAGE)

American Institute of Physics

Thermal Gradients

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Thermal gradients associated with mild heating of a metallic carbon nanotube induces thermocapillary flows in a thin organic overcoat. The result is an open trench with the tube at the base.

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J.Rogers/UIUC

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