Influence of Random Pinning on the Crystallization Process in Suspensions of Hard Spheres - Journal of Crystallization Process and Technology

JCPT > Vol.4 No.2, April 2014

Influence of Random Pinning on the Crystallization Process in Suspensions of Hard Spheres ()

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DOI: 10.4236/jcpt.2014.42012 3,311 Downloads 5,093 Views

Author(s)

Sven Dorosz, Tanja Schilling

Affiliation(s)

Theory of Soft Condensed Matter, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

ABSTRACT

We discuss crystal formation in supersaturated suspensions of monodisperse hard spheres with a concentration of hard spheres randomly pinned in space and time. The pinning procedure introduces an external length scale and an external time scale that restrict the accessible number of configureurations and ultimately the number of pathways leading to crystallization. We observe a significant drop in the nucleation rate density at a characteristic pinning concentration that can be directly related to the structure of the critical nucleus and the dynamics of its formation in the unpinned system.

KEYWORDS

Nucleation, Random Pinning, Confinement, Hard Spheres

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Dorosz, S. and Schilling, T. (2014) Influence of Random Pinning on the Crystallization Process in Suspensions of Hard Spheres. Journal of Crystallization Process and Technology, 4, 89-98. doi: 10.4236/jcpt.2014.42012.

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