Exploiting imperfections in the bulk to direct assembly of surface colloids

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

Volumn 110, Issue 47, 2013, Pages 18804-18808

  Cavallaro, Marcello ^a   Gharbi, Mohamed A ^a   Beller, Daniel A ^a   Copar, Simon ^a   Shi, Zheng ^a   Baumgart, Tobias ^a   Yang, Shu ^a   Kamien, Randall D ^a   Stebe, Kathleen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 CYANO 4' PENTYLBIPHENYL; BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIR; ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLLOID; ELASTICITY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

2D SUPERSTRUCTURES; DIRECTED ASSEMBLY; ELASTIC INTERACTION; NEMATIC INTERFACE; TOPOLOGY;

AIR; BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS; COLLOIDS; ELASTIC MODULUS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NITRILES;

EID: 84888119905     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1313551110     Document Type: Article

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