Sediments of soft spheres arranged by effective density

Nature Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 716-721

  Serrano, César González ^a   McDermott, Joseph J ^a   Velegol, Darrell ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINS; CHARGED PARTICLES; IONIC STRENGTH; MIXTURES; SPHERES;

COLLOIDAL SPHERE; EQUILIBRIUM CONFIGURATION; GRAVITATIONAL ENERGY; HIGH VOLUME FRACTION; INTERPARTICLE REPULSIONS; LOW IONIC STRENGTH; MONODISPERSE SPHERES; SEPARATED LAYER;

BINARY MIXTURES;

EID: 80052043168     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3068     Document Type: Article

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