Self-assembly of soft-matter quasicrystals and their approximants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 52, 2011, Pages 20935-20940

  Iacovella, Christopher R ^a,b   Keys, Aaron S ^a   Glotzer, Sharon C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colloids; Micelles; Nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE; QUASICRYSTAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL; ENERGY; ENTROPY; MICELLE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MICELLES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOSTRUCTURES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84855515491     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1019763108     Document Type: Article

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