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Switching plastic crystals of colloidal rods with electric fields

When a crystal melts into a liquid both long-ranged positional and orientational order are lost, and long-time translational and rotational self-diffusion appear. Sometimes, these properties do not change at once, but in stages, allowing states of matter such as liquid crystals or plastic crystals w...

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Autores principales: Liu, Bing, Besseling, Thijs H., Hermes, Michiel, Demirörs, Ahmet F., Imhof, Arnout, van Blaaderen, Alfons
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Pub. Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3905722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24446033
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4092