An x-ray confinement cell for studies of complex fluids under shear and confinement

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 936-941

  Nieman, Brian ^a   Commeinhes, Xavier ^a   Babcock, Nathan S ^a   Frola, Ivan ^a   Forgett, Rick ^a   Idziak, Stefan H J ^a   Sutton, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; NEUTRON SCATTERING; OPTIMIZATION; SHEARING; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

COMPLEX FLUIDS; SHEARING MECHANISM; SURFACE FORCES APPARATUS; X RAY CONFINEMENT CELL;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 2042474137     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1687040     Document Type: Article

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