Locked-floating-solid to locked-smectic transition in colloidal systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 16, 2004, Pages

  Baumgartl, Jörg ^a   Brunner, Matthias ^a   Bechinger, Clemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CORRELATION METHODS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; REMELTING; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

COLLOIDAL SYSTEMS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL PERIODIC SUBSTRATES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MELTING;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 19644400711     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.168301     Document Type: Article

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