Entropically driven colloidal crystallization on patterned surfaces

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1770-1773

  Lin, Keng Hui ^a   Crocker, John C ^a,c   Prasad, Vikram ^a,d   Schofield, Andrew ^b   Weitz, D A ^a,d   Lubensky, T C ^a   Yodh, A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; ENTROPY; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FREE ENERGY; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HEAT CONVECTION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PLASTIC FILMS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; VOLUME FRACTION;

COLLOIDAL CRYSTALLIZATION; PATTERNED SURFACES; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 0034251460     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1770     Document Type: Article

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