Inhomogeneous model colloid-polymer mixtures: Adsorption at a hard wall

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2001, Pages

  Brader, J M ^a   Dijkstra, M ^b   Evans, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); HAMILTONIANS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

COLLOID-POLYMER MIXTURES;

POLYMERS;

COLLOID; POLYMER;

ADSORPTION; BIOPHYSICS; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADSORPTION; BIOPHYSICS; COLLOIDS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POLYMERS;

EID: 0035304442     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.63.041405     Document Type: Article

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