Frustration of the Isotropic-columnar phase transition of colloidal hard platelets by a transient Cubatic phase

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Marechal, Matthieu ^a,b   Patti, Alessandro ^a,c   Dennison, Matthew ^a   Dijkstra, Marjolein ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED CHEMISTRY OF CATALONIA IQAC CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL HARD PLATELET; COLUMNAR PHASE; COOPERATIVE ROTATION; DEVITRIFICATION PROCESS; DIRECT LINKS; GEOMETRIC FRUSTRATION; PARTICLE SHAPE; STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS; THREE MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

PLATELETS;

EID: 84861623265     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.206101     Document Type: Article

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