Crowding effects in binary mixtures of rod-like and spherical particles

Journal of Molecular Recognition

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 417-425

  Lago, S ^a   Cuetos, A ^a   Martinez Haya B ^a   Rull, L F ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Depleting agent; Equation of state; Hard particles; Liquid crystals; Monte Carlo simulations

Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFORMATION; MACROMOLECULE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 4544282643     PISSN: 09523499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmr.704     Document Type: Conference Paper

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