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How do polydisperse repulsive colloids crystallize?

Author(s) -

Robert Botet,

Bernard Cabane,

Lucas Goehring,

Joaquim Li,

Franck Artzner

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

faraday discussions

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.255

H-Index - 110

eISSN - 1364-5498

pISSN - 1359-6640

DOI - 10.1039/c5fd00145e

Subject(s) - crystallization , colloid , monte carlo method , colloidal particle , colloidal crystal , materials science , chemical physics , nanoparticle , statistical physics , nanotechnology , chemistry , thermodynamics , physics , mathematics , statistics

A modified version of the Gibbs-ensemble Monte-Carlo method reveals how polydisperse charged colloidal particles can build complex colloidal crystals. It provides general rules that are applicable to this fractionated crystallization that stems from size segregation. It explains the spontaneous formation of complex crystals with very large unit-cells in suspensions of nanoparticles with a broad size distribution.

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