Large effect of polydispersity on defect concentrations in colloidal crystals

Details Large effect of polydispersity on defect concentrations in colloidal crystals Large effect of polydispersity on defect concentrations in colloidal crystals

2004-02-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0402090v1

J. Chem. Phys. 120, 6765 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

6 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1667880

We compute the equilibrium concentration of stacking faults and point defects in polydisperse hard-sphere crystals. We find that, while the concentration of stacking faults remains similar to that of monodisperse hard sphere crystals, the concentration of vacancies decreases by about a factor two. Most strikingly, the concentration of interstitials in the maximally polydisperse crystal may be some six orders of magnitude larger than in a monodisperse crystal. We show that this dramatic increase in interstitial concentration is due to the increased probability of finding small particles and that the small-particle tail of the particle size distribution is crucial for the interstitial concentration in a colloidal crystal.

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