Heterogeneous crystallization near structured walls in quenched two-dimensional binary colloidal suspensions

Molecular Physics

Volumn 109, Issue 7-10, 2011, Pages 1385-1391

  Assoud, Lahcen ^a   Messina, René ^a   Löwen, Hartmut ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binary mixtures; Brownian dynamics; Colloids; Heterogeneous crystallization; Nucleation

Indexed keywords

BINARY COLLOIDAL SUSPENSION; BROWNIAN DYNAMICS; CLASSICAL NUCLEATION THEORY; DIPOLAR PARTICLES; DIPOLE-DIPOLE; EQUILIBRIUM STATE; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; EXTERNAL WALLS; FUNCTION OF TIME; HETEROGENEOUS CRYSTALLIZATION; SMALL PARTICLES; SQUARE LATTICES; STRUCTURED SUBSTRATE; TRIANGULAR CLUSTERS; ZERO TEMPERATURES;

BINARY MIXTURES; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTALLITES; CRYSTALLIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NUCLEATION; SUBSTRATES; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 79957805943     PISSN: 00268976     EISSN: 13623028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2011.562871     Document Type: Article

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