| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 44, Number 4, November II 1998
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 531 - 535 | |
| Section | Cross-disciplinary physics and related areas of science and technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1998-00500-3 | |
| Published online | 01 September 2002 | |
Phase separation and crystallisation of polydisperse hard spheres
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, USA
Received:
6
July
1998
Accepted:
24
September
1998
Hard spheres with a polydispersity above approximately 8% are shown to crystallise into two phase-separated solid phases. A polydispersity above 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.
PACS: 82.70.Dd – Colloids / 81.30.-t – Phase diagrams and microstructures developed by solidification and solid-solid phase transformations / 64.70.Dv – Solid-liquid transitions
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