Partial clustering in binary two-dimensional colloidal suspensions

作者:Hoffmann Norman*; Ebert Florian; Likos Christos N; Loewen Hartmut; Maret Georg
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2006, 97(7): 078301.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.078301

摘要

Strongly interacting binary mixtures of superparamagnetic colloidal particles confined to a two-dimensional water-air interface are examined by theory, computer simulation, and experiment. The mixture exhibits a partial clustering in equilibrium: in the voids of the matrix of unclustered big particles, the small particles form subclusters with a spongelike topology which is accompanied by a characteristic small-wave vector peak in the small-small structure factor. This partial clustering is a general phenomenon occurring for strongly coupled negatively nonadditive mixtures.

  • 出版日期2006-8-18