Colloidal glass transition observed in confinement

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Nugent, Carolyn R ^a,b   Edmond, Kazem V ^a   Patel, Hetal N ^a   Weeks, Eric R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOMETRY; GLASS TRANSITION; PARTICLE SIZE; VOLUME FRACTION;

CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; GLASSY BEHAVIORS; QUASIPARALLEL WALLS;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 34547194768     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.025702     Document Type: Article

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