Controlled growth of hard-sphere colloidal crystals

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6756, 1999, Pages 893-895

  Cheng, Zhengdong ^a   Russel, William B ^b   Chaikin, P M ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLOID; CRYSTALLIZATION; DENSITY; KINETICS; LIGHT SCATTERING; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0033613377     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/44785     Document Type: Article

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