Understanding orientational disorder in crystalline assemblies of hard convex polyhedra

S Kundu, K Chakraborty, A Das - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Spontaneous self-assembly of hard convex polyhedra is known to form orientationally
disordered crystalline phases, where particle orientations do not follow the same pattern as …

[HTML][HTML] 3D visualization reveals the cooling rate dependent crystallization near a wall in dense microgel systems

MPM Schelling, TWJ Verouden, TCM Stevens… - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Controlled crystallization, melting and vitrification are important fundamental processes in
nature and technology. However, the microscopic details of these fundamental phenomena …

Fluids meet solids

JLF Abascal, BB Laird, EG Noya… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Obtaining a deep knowledge of the behavior of condensed phases (solids, liquids, and
amorphous) is a great challenge. This challenge is compounded in studies in which two or …