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胶体硬哑铃晶体的成核

Crystal nucleation of colloidal hard dumbbells

Ran Ni, Marjolein Dijkstra

摘要:

利用计算机模拟,我们研究了胶体硬哑铃悬浮液中的均匀晶体成核。自由能垒由蒙特卡罗模拟使用伞形采样技术确定。我们计算的成核率的塑性晶体和非周期性的晶体相使用的动力学前因子,确定从事件驱动的分子动力学模拟。我们发现很好的协议,从自发成核事件中观察到的事件驱动分子动力学模拟的误差范围内的一个数量级的成核率。我们研究了哑铃的长径比对塑性和非周期晶相形核的影响,并确定了临界晶核的结构。此外,我们发现,对齐的CP1晶相的成核强烈抑制在低过饱和度和高过饱和度的缓慢动力学的高自由能势垒。

英文摘要:

Using computer simulations we investigate the homogeneous crystal nucleation in suspensions of colloidal hard dumbbells. The free energy barriers are determined by Monte Carlo simulations using the umbrella sampling technique. We calculate the nucleation rates for the plastic crystal and the aperiodic crystal phase using the kinetic prefactor as determined from event driven molecular dynamics simulations. We find good agreement with the nucleation rates determined from spontaneous nucleation events observed in event driven molecular dynamics simulations within error bars of one order of magnitude. We study the effect of aspect ratio of the dumbbells on the nucleation of plastic and aperiodic crystal phases and we also determine the structure of the critical nuclei. Moreover, we find that the nucleation of the aligned CP1 crystal phase is strongly suppressed by a high free energy barrier at low supersaturations and slow dynamics at high supersaturations.

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