Swelling and shrinking kinetics of a lamellar gel phase
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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, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom
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