Simple liquids confined to molecularly thin layers. I. Confinement-induced liquid-to-solid phase transitions

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 108, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 6996-7009

  Klein, Jacob ^a   Kumacheva, Eugenia ^a,b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 0343754431     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.476114     Document Type: Article

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