Topological colloids

Nature

Volumn 493, Issue 7431, 2013, Pages 200-205

  Senyuk, Bohdan ^a,b   Liu, Qingkun ^a,c   He, Sailing ^c   Kamien, Randall D ^d   Kusner, Robert B ^e   Lubensky, Tom C ^d   Smalyukh, Ivan I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT;

COLLOID; ELECTRIC FIELD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOG; FUEL CELL; MILK; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SMOKE; TOPOLOGY; TRANSFORMATION;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLLOID; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MELTING POINT; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84872129903     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11710     Document Type: Article

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