Optical experiments on a crystallizing hard-sphere-polymer mixture at coexistence

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Stipp, Andreas ^a   Schöpe, Hans Joachim ^a   Palberg, Thomas ^a   Eckert, Thomas ^b   Biehl, Ralf ^c   Bartsch, Eckhard ^d  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG SCATTERING; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; COLLOIDAL SYSTEM; FACE CENTERED CUBIC CRYSTALS; FUNCTION OF TIME; GRAIN BOUNDARY NETWORK; HARD SPHERES; HARD-SPHERE; MICRO-GELS; NUMBER DENSITY; OPTICAL EXPERIMENTS; POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMER MIXTURE; RADIUS OF GYRATION; SCATTERING METHODS; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; TIME-RESOLVED;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS; CRYSTALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; POLYSTYRENES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TITRATION;

CRYSTALLITE SIZE;

EID: 77952031393     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.051401     Document Type: Article

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