Phase behavior and crystallization kinetics of poiy-12-hydroxystearic-coated polymethylmethacrylate colloids

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 2 1, 2003, Pages 204011-204014

  Auer, S ^a   Poon, W C K ^b   Frenkel, D ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATING TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; FREEZING; GRAFT COPOLYMERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICA; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; REACTION KINETICS; STEARIC ACID; VOLUME FRACTION;

GRAFTING DENSITY;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 0037719819     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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