Monte Carlo computer simulations and electron microscopy of colloidal cluster formation via emulsion droplet evaporation

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 135, Issue 24, 2011, Pages

  Schwarz, Ingmar ^a   Fortini, Andrea ^a   Wagner, Claudia Simone ^a   Wittemann, Alexander ^a   Schmidt, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER STRUCTURE; COLLOIDAL CLUSTERS; COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; DROPLET SURFACES; DROPLET-DROPLET INTERACTIONS; EMULSION DROPLETS; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HARD-CORE INTERACTIONS; HARD-SPHERE COLLOID; HIERARCHICAL ASSEMBLIES; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PARTICLE DISTRIBUTIONS; POLYSTYRENE PARTICLE; SINGLE PARTICLE; TETRAHEDRAL CLUSTERS; THEORETICAL MODELS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; TOLUENE DROPLETS;

BINARY MIXTURES; COLLOID CHEMISTRY; COLLOIDS; DROPS; ELECTRON EMISSION; EMULSIFICATION; EMULSIONS; EXPERIMENTS; FIELD EMISSION; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYSTYRENES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPHERES; THERMAL EVAPORATION; TOLUENE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84855286724     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3672106     Document Type: Article

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