Confined colloidal crystals in and out of equilibrium
arXiv:1309.2864 · doi:10.1140/epjst/e2013-02072-1
Abstract
Recent studies on confined crystals of charged colloidal particles are reviewed, both in equilibrium and out of equilibrium. We focus in particular on direct comparisons of experiments (light scattering and microscopy) with lattice sum calculations and computer simulations. In equilibrium we address buckling and crystalline multilayering of charged systems in hard and soft slit confinement. We discuss also recent crystalline structures obtained for charged mixtures. Moreover, we put forward possibilities to apply external perturbations, in order to drive the system out of equilibrium. These include electrolyte gradients as well as the application of shear and electric fields.
Review article, 18 pages, 5 figures
References in corpus (10)
- Phase-field-crystal models for condensed matter dynamics on atomic length and diffusive time scales: an overview
- Phase behavior of hard spheres confined between parallel hard plates: Manipulation of colloidal crystal structures by confinement
- Dynamics of lane formation in driven binary complex plasmas
- Direct measurement of three-body interactions
- Influence of hydrodynamic interactions on lane formation in oppositely charged driven colloids
- Reentrant transitions in colloidal or dusty plasma bilayers
- Colloidal crystal growth at externally imposed nucleation clusters
- Fluids in Extreme Confinement
- Emergent self-propulsion at low Reynolds number
- Layering, freezing and re-entrant melting of hard spheres in soft confinement
Cited by in corpus (11)
- Crystallization kinetics of colloidal model suspensions: recent achievements and new perspectives
- Driven colloidal suspensions in confinement and density functional theory: Microstructure and wall-slip
- Introduction to colloidal dispersions in external fields
- Chemically active colloids near osmotic-responsive walls with surface-chemistry gradients
- Modeling the Behavior of Confined Colloidal Particles Under Shear Flow
- Magnetic particles confined in a modulated channel: structural transitions tunable by tilting a magnetic field
- Phase diagram and critical properties of Yukawa bilayers
- Depinning and heterogeneous dynamics of colloidal crystal layers under shear flow
- Strongly coupled Yukawa trilayer liquid: Structure and dynamics
- Separation of Wigner structures for 2D equimolar binary mixtures of Coulomb particles
- Depinning dynamics of confined colloidal dispersions under oscillatory shear