Liquid crystalline phase formation in suspensions of solid trimyristin nanoparticles

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 118, Issue 38, 2014, Pages 11387-11396

  Gehrer, Simone ^a   Schmiele, Martin ^a   Westermann, Martin ^b   Steiniger, Frank ^b   Unruh, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUID CRYSTALLINE PHASE;

EID: 84907459297     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp506787v     Document Type: Article

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