Control of fluidity and miscibility of a binary liquid mixture by the liquid-liquid transition

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 647-652

  Kurita, Rei ^a   Murata, Ken Ichiro ^a   Tanaka, Hajime ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUIDITY; MIXTURES; SOLUBILITY;

AMORPHOUS STATE; BINARY-LIQUID MIXTURES; DIETHYL ETHERS; LIQUID STATE; LIQUID-LIQUID TRANSITION; MOLECULAR LIQUIDS; SINGLE-COMPONENT LIQUIDS; TRIPHENYL PHOSPHITE;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 49249104084     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2225     Document Type: Article

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