Symmetry Considerations for the Targeted Assembly of Entropically Stabilized Colloidal Crystals via Voronoi Particles
Schultz BA, Damasceno PF, Engel M, Glotzer SC (2015)
Publication Language: English
Publication Status: Published
Publication Type: Journal article, Original article
Publication year: 2015
Journal
Publisher: American Chemical Society
Book Volume: 9
Pages Range: 2336-2344
Journal Issue: 3
DOI: 10.1021/nn507490j
Abstract
The relationship between colloidal building blocks-and their assemblies is an active field of research. As a strategy for targeting novel Crystal structures, we examine the use,of Voronoi particles, which are hard, space-filling particles in the shape of Voronoi cells of a target Structure. Although Voronoi particles stabilize their target structure in the limit of high pressure by construction, the thermodynamic assembly of the same structure at moderate pressure, close to the onset of crystallization, is not guaranteed. Indeed, we find that a more symmetric crystal is often-preferred due to additional entropic contributions arising from configurational or occupational degeneracy. We characterize the assembly behavior of the Voronoi particles in terms of the symmetries of the building blocks as well as the symmetries of crystal structures and demonstrate how controlling the degeneracies through a modification of particle shape and field-directed assembly can significantly improve the assembly propensity.
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APA:
Schultz, B.A., Damasceno, P.F., Engel, M., & Glotzer, S.C. (2015). Symmetry Considerations for the Targeted Assembly of Entropically Stabilized Colloidal Crystals via Voronoi Particles. Acs Nano, 9(3), 2336-2344. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn507490j
MLA:
Schultz, Benjamin A., et al. "Symmetry Considerations for the Targeted Assembly of Entropically Stabilized Colloidal Crystals via Voronoi Particles." Acs Nano 9.3 (2015): 2336-2344.
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