Direct observation of colloidal aggregation by critical casimir forces

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 15, 2009, Pages

  Bonn, Daniel ^a,b   Otwinowski, Jakub ^a   Sacanna, Stefano ^c   Guo, Hua ^a   Wegdam, Gerard ^a   Schall, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE STATISTIQUE   (France)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASIMIR; COLLOIDAL AGGREGATION; COLLOIDAL SYSTEM; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; CRITICAL CASIMIR FORCES; DIRECT OBSERVATION; ELECTROSTATIC REPULSION; FRACTAL CLUSTERS; PARTICLE PAIR; REVERSIBLE AGGREGATION; SIMPLE EXPRESSION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TEMPERATURE RANGE;

AUTOMOBILE EXHIBITIONS; BINARY MIXTURES; DRIVES; QUANTUM THEORY; TANTALUM; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 70349873393     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.156101     Document Type: Article

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