Phase separation and rotor self-assembly in active particle suspensions

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

Volumn 109, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4052-4057

  Schwarz Linek, J ^a   Valeriani, C ^a   Cacciuto, A ^b   Cates, M E ^a   Marenduzzo, D ^a   Morozov, A N ^a   Poon, W C K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; COLLOID; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DENSITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE SEPARATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSPENSION; THEORY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHASE TRANSITION; POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES; SUSPENSIONS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84858204529     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1116334109     Document Type: Article

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