Stripe phases from isotropic repulsive interactions

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 97-100

  Malescio, Gianpietro ^a   Pellicane, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ORDER DISORDER TRANSITIONS; PHASE INTERFACES; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

PATTERN FORMATION;

SURFACE STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY;

CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0037317854     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat820     Document Type: Article

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