Observation of a smecticlike crystalline structure in polydisperse colloids

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 25 I, 2003, Pages 2557021-2557024

  Martin, Stephen ^a   Bryant, Gary ^a   Van Megen, William ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; LATEXES; NUCLEATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POINT DEFECTS; SHEAR STRESS; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

CRYSTALLITES;

POLYMERS;

EID: 0043269848     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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