Metastable and unstable cellular solidification of colloidal suspensions

Nature Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 966-972

  Deville, Sylvain ^a   Maire, Eric ^b   Bernard Granger, Guillaume ^a   Lasalle, Audrey ^a   Bogner, Agnès ^b   Gauthier, Catherine ^b   Leloup, Jérǒme ^a   Guizard, Christian ^a  

^a SAINT GOBAIN RECHERCHE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; GLASS TRANSITION; SOLIDIFICATION; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; COLLOIDAL SUSPENSIONS; CONSTITUTIONAL SUPERCOOLING; CRYSTAL MORPHOLOGIES; INTERFACE INSTABILITY; PARTICLE REDISTRIBUTION; SOLID/LIQUID INTERFACES; UNSTABLE CONDITIONS;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; DIFFUSION; KINETICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; X RAY;

COLLOIDS; DIFFUSION; KINETICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; X-RAYS;

EID: 70549106036     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2571     Document Type: Article

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