Entropy-Driven Unconventional Crystallization of Spherical Colloidal Nanocrystals Confined in Wide Cylinders.
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03127
Abstract: The densest packings of identical spherical colloidal nanocrystals in a thin cylinder generally give rise to confinement-induced chiral ordering. Here, we demonstrate that entropy can invalidate Pauling's packing rules for the nanocrystals confined in wide… read more here.
Keywords: spherical colloidal; nanocrystals confined; confined wide; wide cylinders ... See more keywords