Magnetic-field-induced isotropic-nematic phase transition in a colloidal suspension
- 22 November 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 71 (21) , 3509-3512
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.71.3509
Abstract
Evidence of a magnetic-field-induced isotropic-nematic phase transition is presented for a colloidal suspension of monodisperse fd virus, a semiflexible particle with a length-to-diameter ratio of ∼140. The dynamics of the phase transition are slow enough to study the unstable portion of the phase diagram and the subsequent phase separation.Keywords
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