Surface Freezing and a Two-Step Pathway of the Isotropic-Smectic Phase Transition in Colloidal Rods
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Surface freezing and a two-step pathway of the isotropic-smectic phase transition in colloidal rods.
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.91.165701