Ground-State Shapes and Structures of Colloidal Domains

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2006-02-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0602428v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages and 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physa.2006.05.026

In charged colloidal suspensions, the competition between square-well attraction and long-range Yukawa repulsion leads to various stable domains and Wigner supercrystals. Using a continuum model and symmetry arguments, a phase diagram of spheres, cylinders, and lamellae is obtained as a function of two control parameters, the volume fraction and the ratio between the surface tension and repulsion. Above a critical value of the ratio, the microphase cannot be supported by the Yukawa repulsion and macroscopic phase separation occurs. This finding quantitatively explains the lack of pattern formation in simple liquids because of the small hard sphere diameter in comparison with the size of macromolecules. The phase diagram also predicts microphase separation at zero value of the ratio, suggesting the possibility of self-assembly in repulsive systems.

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