Signatures of nonergodicity transition in a soft colloidal system

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 45, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 6946-6952

  Ozon, Florian ^a   Petekidis, George ^a   Vlassopoulos, Dimitris ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); LIGHT SCATTERING; RHEOLOGY; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); VOLUME FRACTION;

DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; NONERGODICITY TRANSITION; SCATTERING FUNCTION; STORAGE MODULUS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

COLLOIDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); LIGHT SCATTERING; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RHEOLOGY; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); VOLUME FRACTION;

EID: 33750423987     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie051373h     Document Type: Article

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