Spinodal decomposition in a model colloid-polymer mixture in microgravity

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Bailey, A E ^a   Poon, W C K ^b   Christianson, R J ^a   Schofield, A B ^b   Gasser, U ^a   Prasad, V ^a   Manley, S ^a   Segre, P N ^a   Cipelletti, L ^a   Meyer, W V ^c   Doherty, M P ^c   Sankaran, S ^c   Jankovsky, A L ^c   Shiley, W L ^d   Bowen, J P ^d   Eggers, J C ^d   Kurta, C ^d   Lorik, T ^d   Pusey, P N ^b   Weitz, D A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d ZIN Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROGRAVITY; PHASE SEPARATION; SPACE STATIONS;

BINARY LIQUID MIXTURES; DIRECT IMAGING; MODEL COLLOID-POLYMER MIXTURE; SMALL ANGLE LIGHT SCATTERING;

SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION;

EID: 36148961204     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.205701     Document Type: Article

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