Reconfigurable interactions and three-dimensional patterning of colloidal particles and defects in lamellar soft media

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

Volumn 109, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4744-4749

  Trivedi, Rahul P ^a,b   Klevets, Ivan I ^a,c   Senyuk, Bohdan ^a   Lee, Taewoo ^a   Smalyukh, Ivan I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLLOID; ELASTICITY; LASER; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 84859467807     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1119118109     Document Type: Article

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