Temperature as an external field for colloid-polymer mixtures: 'Quenching' by heating and 'melting' by cooling

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 24, Issue 46, 2012, Pages

  Taylor, Shelley L ^a   Evans, Robert ^a   Patrick Royall, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASAKURA-OOSAWA MODELS; COLLOID INTERACTIONS; COLLOID-POLYMER MIXTURE; COLLOIDAL GELS; CRITICAL POINTS; CRITICAL VALUE; CRYSTALLIZATION RATES; EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURE; EXTERNAL FIELDS; FLUID-GEL TRANSITIONS; GAS LIQUIDS; NUMBER DENSITY; POLYMER DEPLETION; POLYMER TEMPERATURE; QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION; RADIUS OF GYRATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SECOND VIRIAL COEFFICIENTS;

GELATION; MELTING; POLYMERS;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 84868313415     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/24/46/464128     Document Type: Article

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