Flow behavior of colloidal rodlike viruses in the nematic phase

Langmuir

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 8048-8057

  Lettinga, M Paul ^a   Dogic, Zvonimir ^b   Wang, Hao ^c   Vermant, Jan ^d  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL RODLIKE VIRUSES; DOI-EDWARDS-HESS MODEL; TRANSIENT SHEAR FLOWS;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; VIRUSES;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 28844500849     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la050116e     Document Type: Article

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