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Phys Rev Lett
; 109(6): 068701, 2012 Aug 10.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-23006309
RESUMO
The analysis of the size distribution of droplets condensing on a substrate (breath figures) is a test ground for scaling theories. Here, we show that a faithful description of these distributions must explicitly deal with the growth mechanisms of the droplets. This finding establishes a gateway connecting nucleation and growth of the smallest droplets on surfaces to gross features of the evolution of the droplet size distribution.