Gelation of particles with short-range attraction

Nature

Volumn 453, Issue 7194, 2008, Pages 499-503

  Lu, Peter J ^a   Zaccarelli, Emanuela ^b,c   Ciulla, Fabio ^b   Schofield, Andrew B ^d   Sciortino, Francesco ^b,c   Weitz, David A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEL; ISOTROPY; PERCOLATION; PHASE EQUILIBRIUM; REACTION KINETICS; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SEPARATION;

ARTICLE; GELATION; KINETICS; NANOANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 44349145918     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06931     Document Type: Article

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