Like-charge attractions in metastable colloidal crystallites

Nature

Volumn 385, Issue 6613, 1997, Pages 230-233

  Larsen, Amy E ^a,b   Grier, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ST OLAF COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLOID; CRYSTALLOID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSPENSION;

EID: 0031020268     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/385230a0     Document Type: Article

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