4 papers
Reply to Smallenburg: Near-melting nucleation and the exponential growth of hard-sphere nucleation times
Roseanna N. Zia
Smallenburg reports near-melting point simulations and observes a well-predicted spontaneous nucleation with mixed, finite-time morphology, in a Comment on our recent Perspective.…
Frenkel's entropy-exchange mechanism in monodisperse, nearly hard-sphere colloids: minimal perturbations to access fluid-crystal coexistence
J. Galen Wang, Umesh Dhumal, Monica E. A. Zakhari +1
Entropically driven fluid-solid transitions in monodisperse, purely repulsive hard spheres (MPRHS) are well established in theory, simulation, and experiment for atomic and colloid…
The elusive fluid-and-crystal coexistence state in simulations of monodisperse, hard-sphere colloids
J. Galen Wang, Umesh Dhumal, Monica E. A. Zakhari +1
Monodisperse, purely repulsive, hard spheres (MPRHS) are an important model system for mechanistically exploring phase behavior in atomic systems and colloids. Since the 1940s, pha…
The matter/life nexus in biological cells
Vishal S. Sivasankar, Roseanna N. Zia
The search for what differentiates inanimate matter from living things began in antiquity as a search for a "fundamental life force" embedded deep within living things - a special…