Phase diagram of dipolar hard and soft spheres: Manipulation of colloidal crystal structures by an external field

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 13, 2005, Pages

  Hynninen, Antti Pekka ^a   Dijkstra, Marjolein ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY-CENTERED-TETRAGONAL (BCT); COLLOIDAL CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FACE-CENTERED CUBIC (FCC); SOFT SPHERES;

ADDITION REACTIONS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FREE ENERGY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; PERMITTIVITY; PHASE DIAGRAMS;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 18144421575     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.138303     Document Type: Article

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