Assembly and phase transitions of colloidal crystals

Nature Reviews Materials

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Li, Bo ^a   Zhou, Di ^a,b   Han, Yilong ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84961727393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20588437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/natrevmats.2015.11     Document Type: Review

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