Insights into phase transition kinetics from colloid science

Nature

Volumn 416, Issue 6883, 2002, Pages 811-815

  Anderson, Valerie J ^a   Lekkerkerker, Henk N W ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GELS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SUPERSATURATION;

UNDERCOOLED;

COLLOIDS;

POLYMER;

COLLOID;

COLLOID; CRYSTALLIZATION; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0037171856     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/416811a     Document Type: Review

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