Fluid-fluid transitions of hard spheres with a very-short-range attraction

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 6019-6022

  Sear, Richard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSE PACKING; EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; HARD SPHERES; MONO-DISPERSE PARTICLES; SHORT-RANGE ATTRACTION; SPHERE DIAMETER;

SPHERES;

EID: 0000509422     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.61.6019     Document Type: Article

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