Evaporation-driven assembly of colloidal particles

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 23, 2004, Pages

  Lauga, Eric ^a   Brenner, Michael P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL PARTICLES; EVAPORATION-DRIVEN ASSEMBLY; GEOMETRICAL CONSTRAINTS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; EVAPORATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); INTERFACIAL ENERGY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYSTYRENES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOPHYSICS; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; COLLOIDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 42749109067     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.238301     Document Type: Article

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