Direct imaging and mesoscale modelling of phase transitions in a nanostructured fluid

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 886-890

  Knoll, A ^a,c   Lyakhova, K S ^b   Horvat, A ^a   Krausch, G ^a   Sevink, G J A ^b   Zvelindovsky, A V ^b,d   Magerle, R ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^e CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTONS; POLYSTYRENES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SUPERCOMPUTERS; VISCOSITY;

IN SITU SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPY; NANOSTRUCTURED FLUIDS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POLYMERIC FLUIDS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY; VIDEORECORDING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION; POLYMERS; SOLUTIONS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 10044236760     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1258     Document Type: Article

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