Liquid crystal phase transitions in suspensions of polydisperse plate-like particles

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6798, 2000, Pages 868-871

  Van Der Kooij, Felix M ^a   Kassapidou, Katerina ^a   Lekkerkerker, Henk N W ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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ARTICLE; COLLOID; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIQUID CRYSTAL; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUSPENSION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0034710678     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35022535     Document Type: Article

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