Formation of an fcc phase through a bcc metastable state in crystallization of charged colloidal particles

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

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Xu, Shenghua ^a   Zhou, Hongwei ^a   Sun, Zhiwei ^a   Xie, Jingchang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHARGED COLLOIDAL PARTICLES; COLLOIDAL CRYSTALLIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FCC PHASE; IN-SITU MONITORING; META-STABLE STATE; METASTABLE STRUCTURES; PARTICLE VOLUME FRACTIONS; STRUCTURAL CHANGE;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; METASTABLE PHASES;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 77954825226     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.010401     Document Type: Article

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