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Colloids confined to a flexible container L. Maibaum, M. Schmidt, and H. Löwen, Phys. Rev. E 63, 051401 (2001). Locate in [bare] [illustrated] list. Get [full paper] as pdf. Extract. A model of hard spheres trapped inside a container of fluctuating shape is proposed. Using computer simulations and cell theory, we calculate equilibrium properties for various finite numbers of confined particles in conformations ranging from clusters to planar and linear structures and identify transitions between these different conformations. [more]  Read the [full paper] as pdf. |
Hard spheres
The hard sphere system freezes between [2] and [3], and in ~[23] dimensions (tags as contents!), as well as on stripe-patterned substrates [26]. Deep relations to dimensional crossover exist [5] [6]. Hard spheres were immersed in emulsions [9], confined to a flexible container [18], exposed to surfaces of other quenched spheres [37] and of random fiber networks [39], and subject to gravity [51]. Recently, the Rosenfeld functional [5] [6] was generalized to non-additive mixtures [53].[more]