New electric-field-driven mesoscale phase transitions in polarized suspensions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 25, 2005, Pages

  Kumar, Anil ^a   Khusid, Boris ^b   Qiu, Zhiyong ^a   Acrivos, Andreas ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAIN-COLUMN FORMATION; MESOSCALE PHASE TRANSITIONS; PARTICLE-RICH WALLS; POLARIZED SUSPENSIONS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLARIZATION; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

COLLOID;

CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MOTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; RADIATION RESPONSE;

COLLOIDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MOTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION;

EID: 29144468029     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.258301     Document Type: Article

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