Nature Reviews Materials
27 January 2016
Assembly and phase transitions of colloidal crystals
Bo Li1, Di Zhou1,2 & Yilong Han1
1 Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China.
2 Multidisciplinary Materials Research Center, Frontier Institute of Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
10.1038/natrevmats.2015.11
Colloidal crystals composed of isotropic spheres are powerful model systems for the studies of crystallization, melting and solid-solid transitions at the single-particle level. Tunable, anisotropic or active particles provide greater opportunities to study crystal assembly and phase transitions.
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