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Entropic Trapping of Hard Spheres in Spherical Confinement
Praveen K. Bommineni, Junwei Wang, Nicolas Vogel +1
Monodisperse spherical colloidal particles confined within emulsion droplets can crystallize into icosahedral clusters. Experimentally it was observed that a few large colloidal pa…
Breakdown of Magic Numbers in Spherical Confinement
Junwei Wang, Jonathan Martín-González, Lukas Römling +6
Magic numbers in finite particle systems correspond to specific system sizes that allow configurations with low free energy, often exhibiting closed surface shells to maximize the…
Early-Stage Bifurcation of Crystallization in a Sphere
Chrameh Fru Mbah, Junwei Wang, Silvan Englisch +5
Bifurcations in kinetic pathways decide the evolution of a system. An example is crystallization, in which the thermodynamically stable polymorph may not form due to kinetic hindra…
Spontaneous Crystallization in Systems of Binary Hard Sphere Colloids
Praveen K. Bommineni, Marco Klement, Michael Engel
Computer simulations of the fluid-to-solid phase transition in the hard sphere system were instrumental for our understanding of crystallization processes. But while colloid experi…
Complex Crystals from Size-disperse Spheres
Praveen K. Bommineni, Nydia Roxana Varela-Rosales, Marco Klement +1
Colloids are rarely perfectly uniform but follow a distribution of sizes, shapes, and charges. This dispersity can be inherent (static) or develop and change over time (dynamic). D…