Simple ordering in complex fluids - Colloidal particles suspended in solution provide intriguing models for studying phase transitions

Physics Today

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 24-30

  Gast, Alice P ^a   Russel, William B ^b  

^a Stanford University ^*  (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTALS; ENTROPY; MOLECULES; PH EFFECTS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SOLUTIONS; SOLVENTS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); VOLUME FRACTION;

COMPLEX FLUIDS; REPULSIONS; SOLUTES;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 0032325313     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.882495     Document Type: Article

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