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SUBMITTER: Klix CL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3691564 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Klix Christian L CL Murata Ken-ichiro K Tanaka Hajime H Williams Stephen R SR Malins Alex A Royall C Patrick CP
Scientific reports 20130101
Colloidal clusters are an unusual state of matter where tunable interactions enable a sufficient reduction in their degrees of freedom that their energy landscapes can become tractable - they form a playground for statistical mechanics and promise unprecedented control of structure on the submicron lengthscale. We study colloidal clusters in a system where a short-ranged polymer-induced attraction drives clustering, while a weak, long-ranged electrostatic repulsion prevents extensive aggregation ...[more]