Geometric frustration in buckled colloidal monolayers

Nature

Volumn 456, Issue 7224, 2008, Pages 898-903

  Han, Yilong ^a,b   Shokef, Yair ^a,c   Alsayed, Ahmed M ^a   Yunker, Peter ^a   Lubensky, Tom C ^a   Yodh, Arjun G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; MICROSPHERE;

COLLOID; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENTROPY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEL;

COLLOID; DYNAMICS; ENERGY; ENTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 57749197645     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07595     Document Type: Review

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