Colloidal hard-sphere crystallization kinetics in microgravity and normal gravity

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 4146-4151

  Cheng, Zhengdong ^a,b   Zhu, Jixiang ^c,d   Russel, William B ^c   Meyer, William V ^e   Chaikin, Paul M ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

^e NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CRYSTALS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; NUCLEATION; SPHERES;

BRAGG LIGHT SCATTERING;

CRYSTALLIZATION;

EID: 0001700421     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.004146     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. J. P. Hansen and I. R. McDonald, Theory of Simple Liquids, 2nd ed. (Academic, New York, 1986).
2. P. N. Pusey, “Colloidal dispersions,” in Liquid, Freezing and the Glass Transition, J. P. Hansen, D. Levesque, and J. Zinn-Justin, eds. (Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1991), Chap. 10.
3. W. van Megen and P. N. Pusey, “Dynamic light-scattering study of the glass-transition in a colloidal suspension,” Phys. Rev. A 43, 5429-5441 (1991).
4. W. van Megen and S. M. Underwood, “Glass-transition in colloidal hard-spheres—mode-coupling theory analysis,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 2766-2769 (1993).
5. W. Götze, “Aspects of structural glass transitions,” in Liquid, Freezing and the Glass Transition, J. P. Hansen, D. Levesque, and J. Zinn-Justin, eds., (Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1991), Chap. 5.
6. S.-E. Phan, Z. Cheng, W. B. Russel, J. X. Zhu, P. M. Chaikin, J. H. Dunsmuir, and R. H. Ottewill, “Phase transition, equation of state, and limiting shear viscosities of hard sphere dispersions,” Phys. Rev. E 54, 6633-6645 (1996).
7. W. B. Russel, “On the dynamics of the disorder order transition,” Phase Transit. 21, 127-137 (1990).
8. B. J. Ackerson andK. Schatzel, “Classical growth of hard-sphere colloidal crystals,” Phys. Rev. E 52, 6448-6460 (1995).
9. W. B. Russel, P. M. Chaikin, J. Zhu, W. V. Meyer, and R. Rogers, “Dendritic growth of hard sphere crystals,” Langmuir 13, 3871-3881 (1997).
10. K. Schatzel and B. J. Ackerson, “Observation of density-fluctuations during crystallization,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 337-340 (1992).
11. K. Schatzel and B. J. Ackerson, “Density-fluctuations during crystallization of colloids,” Phys. Rev. E 48, 3766-3777 (1993).
12. Y. He, B. J. Ackerson, W. van Megen, S. M. Underwood, and K. Schatzel, “Dynamics of crystallization in hard-sphere suspen-sions,” Phys. Rev. E 54, 5286-5297 (1986).
13. J. L. Harland and W. van Megen, “Crystallization kinetics of suspensions of hard colloidal spheres,” Phys. Rev. E 55, 3054-3067 (1997).
14. J. L. Harland, S. I. Henderson, S. M. Underwood, and W. van Megen, “Observation of accelerated nucleation in dense colloidal fluids of hard-sphere particles,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3572-3575 (1995).
15. J. Zhu, M. Li, R. Rogers, W. Meyer, R. H. Ottewill, STS-73 Space Shuttle Crew, W. B. Russel, and P. M. Chaikin, “Crystallization of hard-sphere colloids in microgravity,” Nature (London) 387, 883-885 (1997).
16. M. D. Rintoul and S. Torquato, “Computer simulations of dense hard-sphere systems,” J. Chem. Phys. 20, 9258-9265 (1996).
17. C. T. Lant, A. E. Smart, D. S. Cannell, W. V. Meyer, and M. P. Doherty, “Physics of hard spheres experiment: a general purpose light-scattering instrument,” Appl. Opt. 36, 7501-7507 (1997).
18. S. E. Phan, M. Li, W. B. Russel, J. X. Zhu, P. M. Chaikin, and C. T. Lant, “Linear viscoelasticity of hard sphere colloidal crys-tals from resonance detected with dynamic light scattering,” Phys. Rev. E 60, 1988-1998 (1999).
19. S. I. Henderson and W. van Megen, “Metastability and crystallization in suspensions of mixtures of hard spheres,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 877-880 (1998) and to recent theoretical research, for example, by D. Frenkel, there are strong effects of polydispersity on nucleation, but only at larger polydispersities starting just above 6%.
20. L. Verlet and J. J. Weis, “Equilibrium theory of simple liquids,” Phys. Rev. A 5, 939-951 (1972).
21. P. N. Pusey, W. van Megen, W. P. Bartlett, and B. J. Ackerson, “Structure of crystals of hard colloidal spheres,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2753-2756 (1989).
22. J. C. Wilson, “Imperfections in the structure of cobalt. II. Mathematical treatments of proposed structure,” Proc. R. Soc. London Ser. A 180, 277-285 (1942).
23. W. Loose and B. J. Ackerson, “Model-calculations for the analysis of scattering data from layered structures,” J. Chem. Phys. 101, 7211-7220 (1994).
24. G. W. Brindley and J. Mering, “Diffractions des Rayons X Par les Structures en Couches Desordonnees,” Acta Crystallogr. 4, 441-447 (1951).
25. A. Guinier, X-ray Diffraction (Freeman, San Francisco, Calif., 1963).
26. D. Frenkel and A. J. C. Ladd, “New Monte-Carlo method to compute the free-energy of arbitrary solids—application to the Fcc and Hcp phases of hard-spheres,” J. Chem. Phys. 81, 3188-3193 (1984).
27. L. V. Woodcock, “Entropy difference between the face-centred cubic and hexagonal close-packed crystal structures,” Nature (London) 385, 141-143 (1997).
28. S. Mau and D. Huse, “Stacking entropy of hard-sphere crystals,” Phys. Rev. E 59, 4396-4401 (1999).
29. T. Biben, R. Ohnesorge, and H. Lowen, “Crystallization in sedimentation profiles of hard-spheres,” Europhys. Lett. 28, 665-670 (1994).
30. M. Tokuyama and Y. Enomoto, “Dynamics of crossover phenom-enon in phase-separating systems,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 312 (1992).
31. C. Sagui, D. S. O’gorman, and M. Grant, “Nucleation and growth: decay of a metastable state,” Phys. Rev. E 56, R21-R24 (1997).
32. Z. Cheng, “Colloidal hard sphere crystallization and glass transition,” Ph.D. dissertation (Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1998).