Video microscopy and micromechanics studies of one- and two-dimensional colloidal crystals
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Colloidal suspension of monodispersed charged polystyrene microspheres provides an excellent experimental system for a study of condensed matter physics. Here we report a series of experiments using video microscopy to study the structure and dynamics of colloidal matter. In the first set of experiments, we give a clear demonstration of how thermal fluctuations destroy positional order in one dimension. The second set of experiments is related to the micromechanics of a colloidal solid. New Journal of Physics 7 (2005) 33 PII: S1367-2630(05)86247-
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تاریخ انتشار 2005