Crystallization of tetrahedral patchy particles in silico
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Crystallization of tetrahedral patchy particles in silico.
We investigate the competition between glass formation and crystallization of open tetrahedral structures for particles with tetrahedral patchy interactions. We analyze the outcome of such competition as a function of the potential parameters. Specifically, we focus on the separate roles played by the interaction range and the angular width of the patches, and show that open crystal structures ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Chemical Physics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0021-9606,1089-7690
DOI: 10.1063/1.3578182