A colloidal model system with an interaction tunable from hard sphere to soft and dipolar

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6922, 2003, Pages 513-517

  Yethiraj, Anand ^a,b,c   Van Blaaderen, Alfons ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONODISPERSE COLLOIDAL SUSPENSIONS;

ANISOTROPY; COLLOID CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; GLASS TRANSITION; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEATION; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; RHEOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS; TUNING;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

DECALIN; GLASS; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

COLLOID; SPHERE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COLLOID; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL; DIPOLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MELTING POINT; MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0037472922     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01328     Document Type: Article

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