Entropic Wetting and Many-Body Induced Layering in a Model Colloid-Polymer Mixture

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 20, 2002, Pages

  Dijkstra, Marjolein ^a   van Roij, René ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; MIXTURES; PHASE DIAGRAMS; WETTING;

ENTROPIC WETTING;

POLYMERS;

EID: 4244112324     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.208303     Document Type: Article

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