Volume 186, 2016
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Faraday Discussions

How do polydisperse repulsive colloids crystallize?

Robert Botet,*a   Bernard Cabane,b   Lucas Goehring,c   Joaquim Lic  and  Franck Artznerd  

* Corresponding authors

a Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, CNRS UMR8502, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
E-mail: robert.botet@u-psud.fr
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b LCMD, CNRS UMR 8231, ESPCI, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France

c Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS), 37077 Göttingen, Germany

d Institut de Physique, CNRS UMR 6626, Univ. Rennes, 35042 Rennes, France

Abstract

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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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5FD00145E
Article type
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Submitted
14 Oct 2015
Accepted
04 Nov 2015
First published
04 Nov 2015

Faraday Discuss., 2016,186, 229-240

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How do polydisperse repulsive colloids crystallize?

R. Botet, B. Cabane, L. Goehring, J. Li and F. Artzner, Faraday Discuss., 2016, 186, 229 DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00145E

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