Bicontinuous gels formed by self-assembly of dipolar colloid particles

Soft Matter

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 480-484

  Goyal, Amit ^a   Hall, Carol K ^a   Velev, Orlin D ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICONTINUOUS; DIPOLAR COLLOIDS; GEL STRUCTURES; INTERPENETRATING NETWORKS; LINKED CHAINS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS;

COLLOID CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

BINARY MIXTURES;

EID: 75949107219     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b907873h     Document Type: Article

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