Entropy-driven crystal formation on highly strained substrates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 9301-9304

  Savage, John R ^a   Hopp, Stefan F ^b   Ganapathy, Rajesh ^a   Gerbode, Sharon J ^a   Heuer, Andreas ^b   Cohen, Itai ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colloids; Thermodynamics; Tunable depletion interaction

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COLLOID; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENERGY COST; ENTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

COLLOIDS; THERMODYNAMICS; TUNABLE DEPLETION INTERACTION;

COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENTROPY; KINETICS; NANOPARTICLES; PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84878705280     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1221529110     Document Type: Article

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