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Frustrated crystallisation and melting in two-dimensional pentagonal confinement

Abstract:
The crystallisation and melting behaviour of superparamagnetic colloidal particles confined within a two-dimensional pentagonal environment is studied by systematically varying either the external magnetic field or the number of particles. A system containing 16 confined particles melts monotonically from a commensurate crystalline configuration to a confined liquid-like state as the magnetic field is reduced. When the magnetic field is kept constant and the number of confined particles is increased from 11 to 21, highly non-monotonic behaviour is observed involving re-entrant structural ordering and dynamically frustrated states.
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Published
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10.1039/c3sm51627j

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Chemistry
Sub department:
Physical & Theoretical Chem
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Chemistry
Sub department:
Physical & Theoretical Chem
Role:
Author
More by this author
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Chemistry
Sub department:
Physical & Theoretical Chem
Role:
Author
More by this author
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Chemistry
Sub department:
Physical & Theoretical Chem
Role:
Author


Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry
Journal:
Soft Matter More from this journal
Volume:
9
Issue:
44
Pages:
10586-10591
Publication date:
2013-08-14
DOI:
EISSN:
1744-6848
ISSN:
1744-683X


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pubs:441097
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441097
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2013-12-12

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