Phase diagram and structure of colloid-polymer mixtures confined between walls

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

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Vink, R L C ^a,b   De Virgiliis, A ^a   Horbach, J ^a   Binder, K ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXTURES; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE SEPARATION; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

COLLOID-POLYMER MIXTURES; COLLOID-WALL INTERACTION; DENSITY PROFILES; FINITE SIZE SCALING;

COLLOID CHEMISTRY;

EID: 33748649078     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.031601     Document Type: Article

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