Liquid crystal formation in suspensions of hard rodlike colloidal particles: Direct observation of particle arrangement and self-ordering behavior

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Maeda, Hideatsu ^a   Maeda, Yoshiko ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COLLOIDS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; X RAY SCATTERING;

HARD RODLIKE COLLIDAL PARTICLES; LATERAL CLUSTERING; PARTICLE ARRANGEMENT;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

EID: 0037428559     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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