Re-entrant solidification in polymer-colloid mixtures as a consequence of competing entropic and enthalpic attractions

Nature Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 61-65

  Feng, Lang ^a,c   Laderman, Bezia ^a   Sacanna, Stefano ^a,b   Chaikin, Paul ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; MIXTURES; SELF ASSEMBLY; VISCOELASTICITY;

COLLOIDAL CRYSTALS; COLLOIDAL INTERACTION; COLLOIDAL SELF-ASSEMBLY; DEPLETION INTERACTIONS; ENTROPIC ATTRACTION; NONADSORBING POLYMERS; POLYMER BRIDGING; VISCO-ELASTIC MATERIAL;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84926633013     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4109     Document Type: Article

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