Temperature-induced flocculation of colloidal particles immersed into the isotropic phase of a nematic liquid crystal

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 2831-2839

  Borstnik A ^a,b   Stark, H ^a   Zumer S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES; ELECTROSTATICS; FLOCCULATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

COLLOIDAL DISPERSION; COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; ELECTROSTATIC REPULSION; NEMATIC ISOTROPIC PHASE TRANSITION; SCREENED ELECTROSTATIC REPULSION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TEMPERATURE-INDUCED; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 4244018770     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.61.2831     Document Type: Article

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