Gravity-assisted convective assembly of centimeter-sized uniform two-dimensional colloidal crystals

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1796-1801

  Ye, Ran ^a   Ye, Yong Hong ^a   Zhou, Zhenting ^a   Xu, Huanhuan ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL CRYSTALS; COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; CONVECTIVE ASSEMBLY; CONVECTIVE SELF-ASSEMBLY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GRAVITY-ASSISTED; ORDERING PROCESS; SUSPENSION CONCENTRATIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL COLLOIDAL CRYSTALS;

COLLOIDS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 84873694565     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la3040227     Document Type: Article

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