Volume 98, Issue 15

13 April 2007

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Spontaneous folding of an elastic sheet around an evaporating water droplet. See article 156103 and Physical Review Focus story at

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Capillary Origami: Spontaneous Wrapping of a Droplet with an Elastic Sheet
Charlotte Py, Paul Reverdy, Lionel Doppler, José Bico, Benoît Roman, and Charles N. Baroud
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 156103 (2007)

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Capillary Origami: Spontaneous Wrapping of a Droplet with an Elastic Sheet

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 156103 (2007) - Published 13 April, 2007

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Entropy Production and Time Asymmetry in Nonequilibrium Fluctuations

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Nuclear Physics

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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Triple Differential Cross Sections for the Double Photoionization of $H_{2}$

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Influence of Coupling between Junctions on Breakpoint Current in Intrinsic Josephson Junctions

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