Effect of monomer geometry on the fractal structure of colloidal rod aggregates

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 15, 2004, Pages

  Mohraz, Ali ^a   Moler, David B ^a   Ziff, Robert M ^a   Solomon, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; ANISOTROPY; ASPECT RATIO; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FRACTALS; GELATION; MONOMERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REACTION KINETICS;

COLLOIDAL AGGREGATION; DIFFUSION LIMITED CLUSTER AGGREGATION (DLCA); DISORDERED STRUCTURES;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 2542502952     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.155503     Document Type: Article

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