Casimir-like forces at the percolation transition

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gnan, Nicoletta ^a,b   Zaccarelli, Emanuela ^a,b   Sciortino, Francesco ^b  

^a ISC CNR   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOMER; SOLVENT;

CHEMICAL PROPERTY; COLLOID; CRITICAL STATE; DISPERSAL; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL METHOD; PERCOLATION; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; ASAKURA OOSAWA MODEL; CASIMIR FORCE; COLLOID; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEPLETION INTERACTION; ENERGY; FORCE; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PERCOLATION TRANSITION; PHASE TRANSITION; SIMULATION;

EID: 84903609441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4267     Document Type: Article

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