Entropy favours open colloidal lattices

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 217-222

  Mao, Xiaoming ^a,b   Chen, Qian ^c   Granick, Steve ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; ENTROPY; EXPERIMENTS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SOLIDS;

ANALYTICAL THEORY; CLOSE PACKED STRUCTURES; CLOSE-PACKED; COLLOIDAL ASSEMBLY; COLLOIDAL STRUCTURES; SELF-ASSEMBLED; THREE DIMENSIONS; VIBRATIONAL MODES;

LATTICE THEORY;

EID: 84875437989     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3496     Document Type: Article

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