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Nature Materials 6, 921 - 922 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nmat2062

Colloids: A useful boundary

Anthony D. Dinsmore1

  1. Anthony D. Dinsmore is in the Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA.
    dinsmore@physics.umass.edu


Soft solids consisting of two bicontinuous, immiscible solvents separated by a tortuous membrane of small solid particles have been predicted as novel reaction media. Experimental demonstration of these materials is possible by careful treatment of the particles' surfaces.

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