Multi-scale kinetics of a field-directed colloidal phase transition

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

Volumn 109, Issue 40, 2012, Pages 16023-16028

  Swan, James W ^a   Vasquez, Paula A ^a   Whitson, Peggy A ^b   Fincke, E Michael ^b   Wakata, Koichi ^b   Magnus, Sandra H ^b   De Winne, Frank ^c   Barratt, Michael R ^b   Agui, Juan H ^d   Green, Robert D ^d   Hall, Nancy R ^d   Bohman, Donna Y ^d   Bunnell, Charles T ^e   Gast, Alice P ^f   Furst, Eric M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

^d NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e ZIN Technologies Inc   (United States)

^f Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex fluids; Magneto rheological fluid; Microgravity science

Indexed keywords

IRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLE; NANOPARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; COLLOID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISPERSION; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; FLOW KINETICS; FORCE; GEL; MAGNETIC FIELD; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; TENSILE STRENGTH;

COLLOIDS; GELS; KINETICS; MAGNETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHASE TRANSITION; RHEOLOGY; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 84867089336     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206915109     Document Type: Article

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