Confinement effects on phase behavior of soft matter systems

Soft Matter

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1555-1568

  Binder, Kurt ^a   Horbach, Jürgen ^b   Vink, Richard ^c   De Virgiliis, Andres ^d  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COLLOIDS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUID PHASE EPITAXY; MICROCIRCULATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE BEHAVIOR; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYMERS; SEPARATION; THICK FILMS; THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILMS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

ASAKURA-OOSAWA (AO) MODELS; CAPILLARY CONDENSATION (CC); COEXISTING PHASES; COLLOID POLYMER MIXTURES; COMPETING WALLS; CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; CYLINDRICAL PORES; DISORDERED PHASE; DISTORTION (DEFORMATION); FINITE THICKNESS; INTERFACE LOCALIZATION; LAMELLAR MESOPHASES; NEMATIC PHASES; ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY (RSC); SHARP TRANSITION; SIMPLE FLUIDS; SOFT MATTER SYSTEMS; SOFT MODES; THIN FILM GEOMETRY; TRANSITION (JEL CLASSIFICATIONS:E52 ,E41 ,E31); TWO PHASES;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 47949095924     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b802207k     Document Type: Review

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