Acoustic excitations in suspensions of soft colloids

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 21, 2000, Pages 4622-4625

  Penciu, R S ^d   Fytas, G ^a,b   Economou, E N ^a   Steffen, W ^b   Yannopoulos, S N ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS PHYSICS   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE EFFECTS; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); VOLUME FRACTION;

ACOUSTIC EXCITATIONS; SOFT COLLOIDS;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 0034323772     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4622     Document Type: Article

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