Onset of the crystalline phase in small assemblies of colloidal particles

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 20, 2013, Pages

  Sehgal, Ray M ^a   Cogan, Joshua G ^b   Ford, David M ^a   Maroudas, Dimitrios ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; CRYSTALLINE PHASE; CRYSTALLINE PHASIS; FREE-ENERGY LANDSCAPE; INTERPARTICLE ATTRACTIONS; TWO ORDER PARAMETERS; UMBRELLA SAMPLING;

COLLOIDS;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

EID: 84878366909     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4807676     Document Type: Article

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