Simple models of complex aggregation: Vesicle formation by soft repulsive spheres with dipolelike interactions

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Ballone, P ^a   Del Popolo M G ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRYING CLASSICAL SPINS; FREE FLOATING VESICLES; HOMOGENEOUS FLUID; SPIN-SPIN INTERACTIONS;

AGGREGATES; CONDENSATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; POLYMERIZATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SPHERES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 33644998694     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.031404     Document Type: Article

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