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Particle Diffusion and Crystallisation in Suspensions of Hard Spheres

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Hard sphere colloidal suspensions composed of polymer particles in a non-aqueous solvent are studied using light scattering techniques. Single particle motions in the metastable fluid are obtained from measurement of the incoherent intermediate scattering function. The emergence of crystalline order is observed by monitoring the development of the main Bragg reflection

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  1. Department of Applied Physics, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia

    W. Van Megen, S. M. Underwood, J. Müller, T. C. Mortensen, S. I. Henderson, J. L. Harland & P. Francis

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Van Megen, W. et al. (1997). Particle Diffusion and Crystallisation in Suspensions of Hard Spheres. In: Pike, E.R., Abbiss, J.B. (eds) Light Scattering and Photon Correlation Spectroscopy. NATO ASI Series, vol 40. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5586-1_17

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