Colloidal crystal growth at externally imposed nucleation clusters

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Van Teeffelen, Sven ^a   Likos, Christos N ^a   Löwen, Hartmut ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COLLOIDS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; NUCLEATION;

BROWNIAN DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; METASTABLE COLLOIDAL FLUID; NUCLEATION CLUSTERS; RHOMBIC LATTICE;

CRYSTAL GROWTH;

EID: 40849118301     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.108302     Document Type: Article

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