Electrostatics and aggregation: How charge can turn a crystal into a gel

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 135, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Schmit, Jeremy D ^a,d   Whitelam, Stephen ^b   Dill, Ken ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBLE VOLUME; ANALYTIC MODELS; BEARING POINTS; COUNTERIONS; DRIVING FORCES; ELECTROSTATIC FREE ENERGY; GEL FORMATION; HARD SPHERES;

DISSOCIATION; ELECTROSTATICS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SPHERES;

GELS;

INORGANIC SALT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEL; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; GELS; SALTS; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 80052426201     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3626803     Document Type: Article

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