Bridging length scales in colloidal liquids and interfaces from near-critical divergence to single particles

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 636-640

  Royall, C Patrick ^a,b   Aarts, Dirk G A L ^c   Tanaka, Hajime ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUEFIED GASES; PHASE INTERFACES;

BOILING AND CONDENSATIONS; COLLOID-POLYMER MIXTURE; COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; CORRELATION LENGTH SCALE; CORRELATION LENGTHS; INTERFACIAL THICKNESS; LIQUID GAS INTERFACE; SMOOTH TRANSITIONS;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 34548436052     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys679     Document Type: Article

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