On the mechanisms of colloidal self-assembly during spin-coating

Soft Matter

Volumn 10, Issue 44, 2014, Pages 8804-8812

  Toolan, Daniel T W ^a   Fujii, Syuji ^b   Ebbens, Stephen J ^a   Nakamura, Yoshinobu ^b   Howse, Jonathan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b OSAKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL SELF-ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84908301568     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4sm01711k     Document Type: Article

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