Order causes secondary Bragg peaks in soft materials

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 888-893

  Förster, Stephan ^a   Timmann, Andreas ^a   Schellbach, Carsten ^a   Frömsdorf, Andreas ^a   Kornowski, Andreas ^a   Weller, Horst ^a   Roth, Stephan V ^b   Lindner, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; BRAGG GRATINGS; COLLOIDS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EXTERNAL FIELDS; SECONDARY BRAGG PEAKS; SOFT MATERIALS;

MICROSTRUCTURE;

EID: 35748967848     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1995     Document Type: Article

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