Collective ordering of colloids in grafted polymer layers

Soft Matter

Volumn 9, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 5565-5571

  Curk, Tine ^a   Martinez Veracoechea, Francisco J ^a   Frenkel, Daan ^a   Dobnikar, Jure ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL CLUSTERS; COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; COLLOIDAL SUSPENSIONS; COLLOIDS AND POLYMERS; COLUMNAR STRUCTURES; DISORDERED DISTRIBUTION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; STRUCTURED FILMS;

COLLOIDS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMERS;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 84878040258     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c3sm50486g     Document Type: Article

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