Shear effects on crystal nucleation in colloidal suspensions
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Shear effects on crystal nucleation in colloidal suspensions.
Extensive two-dimensional Langevin dynamics simulations are used to determine the effect of steady shear flows on the crystal nucleation kinetics of charge stabilized colloids and colloids whose pair potential possess an attractive shallow well of a few k_{B}T 's (attractive colloids). Results show that in both types of systems small amounts of shear speeds up the crystallization process and en...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1539-3755,1550-2376
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.78.031403