Switching plastic crystals of colloidal rods with electric fields

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Liu, Bing ^a   Besseling, Thijs H ^a   Hermes, Michiel ^a   Demirörs, Ahmet F ^a   Imhof, Arnout ^a   Van Blaaderen, Alfons ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOID; CRYSTAL; DIFFUSION; ELECTRICAL METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; COLLOID; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; DIFFRACTION; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; LIQUID CRYSTAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 84892967080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4092     Document Type: Article

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