PHASE-SEPARATION AND CRYSTALLIZATION OF POLYDISPERSE HARD-SPHERES

Authors
SEAR RP
Citation
Rp. Sear, PHASE-SEPARATION AND CRYSTALLIZATION OF POLYDISPERSE HARD-SPHERES, Europhysics letters (Print), 44(4), 1998, pp. 531-535
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Europhysics letters (Print) → ACNP
ISSN journal
02955075
Volume
44
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
531 - 535
Database
ISI
SICI code
0295-5075(1998)44:4<531:PACOPH>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Hard spheres with a polydispersity above approximately 8% are shown to crystallise into two phase-separated solid phases. A polydispersity a bove 8% is too large to be tolerated by a single solid phase but phase separation produces two fractions with polydispersities sufficiently narrow to allow them to crystallise. It may not be possible to observe this in experiment due to the intervention of a glass transition.