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硬球悬浮液中前驱体介导的晶化过程

Precursor-mediated crystallization process in suspensions of hard spheres

T. Schilling, H. J. Schope, M. Oettel, G. Opletal, I. Snook

摘要:

我们报告了硬球晶体成核的大规模计算机模拟研究。通过结合实际和倒易空间数据的分析,支持一个两步结晶过程的图片:第一致密,无定形簇的形式,然后作为前体的有序微晶的成核。这种结晶过程以前曾在通过具有吸引力和排斥力的电势相互作用的系统中观察到,最突出的是在蛋白质溶液中。在这种情况下,效果已被归因于亚稳态流体-流体分层的存在。然而,我们的模拟表明,一个纯粹的排斥系统(没有亚稳态流体-流体共存)通过相同的机制结晶。

英文摘要:

We report on a large scale computer simulation study of crystal nucleation in hard spheres. Through a combined analysis of real and reciprocal space data, a picture of a two-step crystallization process is supported: First dense, amorphous clusters form which then act as precursors for the nucleation of well-ordered crystallites. This kind of crystallization process has been previously observed in systems that interact via potentials that have an attractive as well as a repulsive part, most prominently in protein solutions. In this context the effect has been attributed to the presence of metastable fluid-fluid demixing. Our simulations, however, show that a purely repulsive system (that has no metastable fluid-fluid coexistence) crystallizes via the same mechanism.

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