Nonequilibrium sedimentation of colloids on the particle scale

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 18, 2007, Pages

  Royall, C Patrick ^a,b   Dzubiella, Joachim ^c   Schmidt, Matthias ^d,e   Van Blaaderen, Alfons ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; OSMOSIS; SEDIMENTATION;

COLLOIDAL DISPERSIONS; DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; SINGLE PARTICLE INFORMATION;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 34247893784     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.188304     Document Type: Article

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