Hiding in Plain View: Colloidal Self-Assembly from Polydisperse Populations
- Submitting institution
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Nottingham Trent University
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 44 - 701896
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.208001
- Title of journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Article number
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- First page
- 208001
- Volume
- 116
- Issue
- 20
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- Open access status
- Deposit exception
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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7
- Research group(s)
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A - Imaging, Materials and Engineering Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Highlighted as an Editor’s Suggestion, this work resolves a 20-year contradiction between theory and experiment, by demonstrating that polydisperse colloids will crystallise. An accompanying editorial (https://physics.aps.org/articles/v9/57) emphasised its novelty as “consensus has been that fractionation couldn’t be achieved experimentally” and that we “reveal a new route to crystallization, increasing the variety of crystal structures available for industrial purposes.” A Nature Materials viewpoint (doi:10.1038/s41563-019-0362-z) has subsequently identified this output as launching a prominent research direction, which “hints at deep geometric connections between the configurational spaces available to discrete and continuous particle distributions.”
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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