Gelation versus liquid crystal phase transitions in suspensions of plate-like particles

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1847, 2006, Pages 2807-2816

  Mourad, M C D ^a   Wijnhoven, J E G J ^a   Van 'T Zand, D D ^a   Van Der Beek, D ^a   Lekkerkerker, H N W ^a   Lagerwall, S T ^b   Wilson, M ^c   Klein, S ^d   Kulkarni, C V ^e  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colloid; Columnar; Gelation; Nematic; Phase transition; Suspension

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750499053     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1856     Document Type: Article

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