Compression induced crystal-to-glass transition in soft colloidal solids
Using colloidal particles with different thermosensitivities, we observe the transition from a crystalline solid to a disordered glass by tuning the size mismatch of the constituent particles in quasi-two-dimensional configurations. The transition is clearly identifiable by the correlation functions...
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| description | Using colloidal particles with different thermosensitivities, we observe the transition from a crystalline solid to a disordered glass by tuning the size mismatch of the constituent particles in quasi-two-dimensional configurations. The transition is clearly identifiable by the correlation functions of the orientational order parameters and its susceptibilities. Different from typical order-to-disorder transitions such as melting, where the underlying mechanism involves the diffusion of defects, the disordered phase in the crystal-to-glass transition grows via a nucleation process. The disordered clusters grow in size as the particle mismatch increases, and eventually percolate the whole system, which signifies the qualitative change from an ordered crystal to a disordered glass. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8b1b59c0cff64039b24eff7d47bc9a872025-08-20T03:15:27ZengScience PressNational Science Open2097-11682023-04-01210.1360/nso/20220056eb33e642Compression induced crystal-to-glass transition in soft colloidal solidsChen Li0Yang Xiunan1Yang Mingcheng2Wang Chenhong3Chen Ke4["Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China","University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China","Cygnus Biosciences Co., Ltd., Beijing 100176, China"]["Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China","University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"]["Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China","University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"]["Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China","University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China","Beijing Tide Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Beijing 100176, China"]["Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China","University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China","Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, China"]Using colloidal particles with different thermosensitivities, we observe the transition from a crystalline solid to a disordered glass by tuning the size mismatch of the constituent particles in quasi-two-dimensional configurations. The transition is clearly identifiable by the correlation functions of the orientational order parameters and its susceptibilities. Different from typical order-to-disorder transitions such as melting, where the underlying mechanism involves the diffusion of defects, the disordered phase in the crystal-to-glass transition grows via a nucleation process. The disordered clusters grow in size as the particle mismatch increases, and eventually percolate the whole system, which signifies the qualitative change from an ordered crystal to a disordered glass.https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1360/nso/20220056crystal-to-glass transtionpercolationcolloidal solids |
| spellingShingle | Chen Li Yang Xiunan Yang Mingcheng Wang Chenhong Chen Ke Compression induced crystal-to-glass transition in soft colloidal solids National Science Open crystal-to-glass transtion percolation colloidal solids |
| title | Compression induced crystal-to-glass transition in soft colloidal solids |
| title_full | Compression induced crystal-to-glass transition in soft colloidal solids |
| title_fullStr | Compression induced crystal-to-glass transition in soft colloidal solids |
| title_full_unstemmed | Compression induced crystal-to-glass transition in soft colloidal solids |
| title_short | Compression induced crystal-to-glass transition in soft colloidal solids |
| title_sort | compression induced crystal to glass transition in soft colloidal solids |
| topic | crystal-to-glass transtion percolation colloidal solids |
| url | https://www.sciengine.com/doi/10.1360/nso/20220056 |
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