Controlled assembly of jammed colloidal shells on fluid droplets

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 553-556

  Subramaniam, Anand Bala ^a   Abkarian, Manouk ^a   Stone, Howard A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); DROP FORMATION; EMULSIFICATION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUIDS; HEAT TREATMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SELF ASSEMBLY;

COLLOIDAL SHELLS; FLUID INTERFACES; MICROFLUIDICS;

COLLOIDS;

BIOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; CRYSTALLIZATION; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLUBILITY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; COLLOIDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROFLUIDICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLUBILITY; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 21844439788     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1412     Document Type: Article

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