Asymmetric caging in soft colloidal mixtures

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 780-784

  Mayer, C ^a,b   Zaccarelli, E ^a   Stiakakis, E ^c,h   Likos, C N ^b,d   Sciortino, F ^a   Munam, A ^e   Gauthier, M ^e   Hadjichristidis, N ^f   Iatrou, H ^f   Tartaglia, P ^a   Lowen H ^b   Vlassopoulos, D ^c,g  

^a UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^d Erwin Schrodinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^h FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; MIXTURES;

DYNAMICAL ARRESTS; HARD-SPHERE GLASS; HARD-SPHERE MIXTURES; PARAMETER SPACES; RATIONAL DESIGN; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; SOFT-COLLOIDAL MIXTURES; VITRIFIED STATE;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS;

EID: 52549129061     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2286     Document Type: Article

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