Surface freezing in binary mixtures of chain molecules. I. Alkane mixtures

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

Volumn 68, Issue 3 1, 2003, Pages 316051-3160513

  Sloutskin, E ^a   Wu, X Z ^b   Peterson, T B ^c   Gang, O ^a,d   Ocko, B M ^d   Sirota, E B ^e   Deutsch, M ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HITACHI AMERICA LTD   (United States)

^c Network Data Systems   (United States)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ENTROPY; FREEZING; HYDROGENATION; MONOLAYERS; SURFACE TENSION; X RAY SCATTERING;

CHAIN MOLECULES;

PARAFFINS;

EID: 0242662349     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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