Swelling and shrinking kinetics of a lamellar gel phase
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Swelling and shrinking kinetics of a lamellar gel phase
David J. Fairhurst, Mark E. Baker, Neil Shaw, and Stefan U. Egelhaaf Department of Physics, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, NG11 8NS, United Kingdom Unilever Research, Port Sunlight Laboratory, Bebington, Wirral L63 3JW, United Kingdom Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Heinrich-Heine-University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany SUPA, School of Physics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburg...
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied Physics Letters
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0003-6951,1077-3118
DOI: 10.1063/1.2913762