Tools
Tools
Bareigts, G., Kiatkirakajorn, P.-C., Li, J., Botet, R., Sztucki, M., Cabane, B., Goehring, L. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-3858-7295 and Labbez, C.,
2020.
Packing polydisperse colloids into crystals: when charge-dispersity matters.
Physical Review Letters, 124 (5): 058003.
ISSN 0031-9007
|
Text
1290593_Goehring.pdf - Published version Download (909kB) | Preview |
|
|
Text (Supplemental Material)
1290593_Goehring_supp.pdf - Supplemental Material Download (3MB) | Preview |
Abstract
Monte Carlo simulations, fully constrained by experimental parameters, are found to agree well with a measured phase diagram of aqueous dispersions of nanoparticles with a moderate size polydispersity over a broad range of salt concentrations and volume fractions. Upon increasing volume fraction the colloids freeze first into coexisting compact solids then into a body centered cubic phase (bcc) before they melt into a glass forming liquid. The surprising stability of the bcc solid at high volume fractions and salt concentrations is explained by the interaction (charge) polydispersity and vibrational entropy.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publication Title: | Physical Review Letters | ||||||
| Creators: | Bareigts, G., Kiatkirakajorn, P.-C., Li, J., Botet, R., Sztucki, M., Cabane, B., Goehring, L. and Labbez, C. | ||||||
| Publisher: | American Physical Society (APS) | ||||||
| Date: | 5 February 2020 | ||||||
| Volume: | 124 | ||||||
| Number: | 5 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0031-9007 | ||||||
| Identifiers: |
|
||||||
| Rights: | © 2020 American Physical Society. | ||||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Science and Technology | ||||||
| Record created by: | Linda Sullivan | ||||||
| Date Added: | 11 Feb 2020 11:00 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 11 Feb 2020 11:00 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/39194 |
Actions (login required)
 |
Edit View |
Views
Views per month over past year
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
