Dynamic templating of colloidal patterns in three dimensions with nonuniform electric fields

Langmuir

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 4313-4318

  Bartlett, Andrew P ^a,b   Agarwal, Amit K ^a,c   Yethiraj, Anand ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Defence Research and Development Organisation   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D STRUCTURE; AC ELECTRIC FIELD; COLLOIDAL SYSTEM; DIELECTROPHORESIS; ELECTRIC FIELD GEOMETRY; INDUCED-CHARGE ELECTRO-OSMOSIS; NONUNIFORM ELECTRIC FIELD; PATTERNED ELECTRODE; POSITIONAL CONTROL; SWITCHABLE MATERIALS; TEMPLATING; THREE DIMENSIONS; TUNING PARAMETER;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; ELECTROOSMOSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS;

ORDER DISORDER TRANSITIONS;

EID: 79953865765     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la200179c     Document Type: Article

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