The observation of formation and annihilation of solitons and standing strain wave superstructures in a two-dimensional colloidal crystal

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 132, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Chui, Yu Hang ^a   Sengupta, Surajit ^b,c   Snook, Ian K ^d   Binder, Kurt ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b S N BOSE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR BASIC SCIENCES   (India)

^c DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (India)

^d RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSE-GRAINED DESCRIPTION; COLLOIDAL CRYSTALS; CONFINING WALLS; DYNAMICAL PROCESS; MESOSCALE; MOLECULAR ANIMATION; NARROW CHANNEL; NON-UNIFORM STRAIN; STRAIN WAVES; STRUCTURAL TRANSITIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL COLLOIDAL CRYSTALS;

SOLITONS;

WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

EID: 77149125926     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3299001     Document Type: Article

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