Communication: Thermodynamic signatures of cluster formation in fluids with competing interactions

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Bomont, Jean Marc ^a   Bretonnet, Jean Louis ^a   Costa, Dino ^b   Hansen, Jean Pierre ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER FORMATIONS; COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; HOMOGENEOUS FLUIDS; JUMP DISCONTINUITIES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PARTICLE CLUSTERING; PHYSICAL CONDITIONS; REPULSIVE INTERACTIONS; THERMODYNAMIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 84863645460     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4733390     Document Type: Article

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