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The Free-Energy Landscape of Clusters of Attractive Hard Spheres
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Packing Puzzle: The packing of a large number of spheres is a well-studied problem with maximal packing based on the arrangement of nearest neighbors. With much smaller numbers of particles, it is the free energy that governs which packing arrangements dominate. Meng et al. (p. 560 ; see the Perspective by Crocker ) looked at the assembly of colloidal clusters where the number of particles was limited from 2 to 10. For five particles or fewer, only one packing arrangement was found. For six or more particles, while a number of similar energy structures could form, the probability of formation was biased toward those structures with the greater number of nearest-neighbor connections.
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- Authors
- Meng, G., Arkus, N., Brenner, M. P., & Manoharan, V. N.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2010-01-29
- Volume
- 327
- Issue
- 5965
- Pages
- 560-563
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2014379402
- Cited by
- 306
- References
- 21
- FWCI
- 12.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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