Direct imaging of dynamical heterogeneities near the colloid-gel transition

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Gao, Y ^a   Kilfoil, M L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; CORRELATION METHODS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

CONFOCAL FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GEL TRANSITION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547936922     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.078301     Document Type: Article

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