Crystallization kinetics of colloidal model suspensions: Recent achievements and new perspectives

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 26, Issue 33, 2014, Pages

  Palberg, Thomas ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

colloids; crystallization; microscopy; model systems; nucleation; scattering

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEATION; SCATTERING;

CRYSTALLIZATION PATHWAY; CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; EXPERIMENTAL ASPECTS; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION; MODEL SYSTEM; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; SYSTEM CHARACTERIZATION;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 84905472271     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/26/33/333101     Document Type: Review

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