Packing confined hard spheres denser with adaptive prism phases

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 21, 2012, Pages

  Oǧuz, Erdal C ^a   Marechal, Matthieu ^a   Ramiro Manzano, Fernando ^b   Rodriguez, Isabelle ^c   Messina, René ^a,d   Meseguer, Francisco J ^c   Löwen, Hartmut ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSE PACKING; HARD SPHERES; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PLATE SEPARATION; PRISMATIC STRUCTURES; REAL-SPACE; STABILIZED COLLOIDS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS; PRISMS; SPHERES;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 84870227579     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.218301     Document Type: Article

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