Vacancy-stabilized crystalline order in hard cubes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 44, 2012, Pages 17886-17890

  Smallenburg, Frank ^a   Filion, Laura ^a,b   Marechal, Matthieu ^c   Dijkstra, Marjolein ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colloids; Free energy; Hard polyhedra

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIFFUSION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84868146884     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1211784109     Document Type: Article

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