Surfactant-mediated two-dimensional crystallization of colloidal crystals

Science

Volumn 286, Issue 5448, 1999, Pages 2325-2328

  Ramos, Laurence ^a,c   Lubensky, T C ^a   Dan, Nily ^b   Nelson, Philip ^a   Weitz, D A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURFACTANT;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; COLLOID; CRYSTALLIZATION; MODEL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033579308     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5448.2325     Document Type: Article

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18. We thank J. Crocker and E. Weeks for assistance with particle tracking. Supported by the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center Program of NSF under award number DMR96-32598, and by NSF through equipment grants DMR97-24486 and DMR97- 04300. LR. also acknowledges support from the bourse Lavoisier du Ministère Français des Affaires Etrangères. N.D. was supported in part by NSF grant CTS-9814398; P.N. was supported in part by NSF grant DMR98-07156.