Liquid-vapor transition driven by bond disorder

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Bozorgui, Behnaz ^a   Frenkel, Daan ^a,b  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; LIQUID PHASE EPITAXY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OLIGOMERS; POLYMERS; VAPORS;

CANONICAL MONTE CARLO; DILUTE GASES; EQUIMOLAR MIXTURES; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS; FIRST ORDERS; FUNCTIONALIZATION; LIQUID-VAPOR TRANSITIONS; LIQUIDLIKE PHASE; SELF-HEALING MATERIALS; VAPOR-LIQUID;

PLASTIC COATINGS;

EID: 48849095381     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.045701     Document Type: Article

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