Colloidal ionic complexes on periodic substrates: Ground-state configurations and pattern switching

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

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  El Shawish, Samir ^a   Dobnikar, Jure ^a,b   Trizac, Emmanuel ^c  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL FIELD; IONIC CLUSTERS; IONIC COMPLEX; MACROSCOPIC PATTERN; OPTICALTRAPPING; PARAMETER RANGE; PATTERN SWITCHING; PERCOLATED STRUCTURES; POSITIVELY CHARGED; RECTANGULAR ARRAYS; SPHERICAL COLLOIDS; SUBSTRATE POTENTIAL;

COLLOID CHEMISTRY; COLLOIDS; FRUITS;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 79961054820     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.041403     Document Type: Article

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