Aspect-ratio-dependent phase transitions and concentration fluctuations in aqueous colloidal dispersions of charged platelike particles

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

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Yamaguchi, Daisuke ^a   Miyamoto, Nobuyoshi ^b   Fujita, Takako ^c   Nakato, Teruyuki ^c,e   Koizumi, Satoshi ^a,f   Ohta, Noboru ^d   Yagi, Naoto ^d   Hashimoto, Takeji ^a,g,h  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL DISPERSION; COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; CONCENTRATION FLUCTUATION; INDUCED PHASE TRANSITION; ISOTROPIC PHASE; LATERAL SIZES; LAYERED PHASE; LINE SHAPE; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE PHASE; LYOTROPICS; MACROSCOPIC PHASE SEPARATION; NEMATIC PHASE; NIOBATES; PARTICLE VOLUME CONCENTRATIONS; SCATTERING PEAK; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; SMALL-ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING;

DISPERSIONS; NEUTRON SCATTERING; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 84856668801     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.011403     Document Type: Article

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