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Layering transitions in colloidal crystal thin films between 1 and 4 monolayers

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Soft Matter · Journal article · 3 September 2009

F. Ramiro-Manzano, E. Bonet, I. Rodriguez and F. Meseguer

Soft Matter

Volume 5 · Issue 21

Pages 4279-4282

2009

Abstract

This paper investigates the sequence of morphological transitions in a nearly hard particle arrangement of colloidal crystals confined in a wedge cell. Earlier studies have shown intermediate particle arrangements, such as the buckling, rhombic, prismatic and hcp-like phases, to account for the drastic changes in filling fraction between triangular and square arrangements. Here we describe particle ordering for films between 1 and 4 layers and present a new hcp(011) intermediate phase for transitions with more than 2 layers.

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F. Ramiro-Manzano, E. Bonet, I. Rodriguez and F. Meseguer. “Layering transitions in colloidal crystal thin films between 1 and 4 monolayers.” Soft Matter 5(21), 4279-4282 (2009). DOI: 10.1039/B907441D.

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Ramiro-Manzano, F., Bonet, E., Rodriguez, I. and Meseguer, F. “Layering transitions in colloidal crystal thin films between 1 and 4 monolayers.” Soft Matter 5(21), 4279-4282 (2009). DOI: 10.1039/B907441D.

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The Royal Society of Chemistry allows authors to reproduce their own figures and diagrams with correct acknowledgement. RSC sharing policy does not permit public posting of the subscription Version of Record, so the local publisher PDF is not hosted here. The complete original figure compositions below are reproduced without alteration by an article author and credited to the source.

Figures

Figure 1. SEM images and structural models for the hcp(100)-like to pre-layer transition.

Reproduced from Soft Matter 5, 4279-4282 (2009), DOI 10.1039/B907441D, by an author with acknowledgement to the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Figure 2. Complete SEM composition of intermediate colloidal-layer arrangements.

Reproduced from the original RSC article with full acknowledgement.

Figure 3. Complete models of the transition between triangular and square layer arrangements.

Reproduced from the original RSC article with full acknowledgement.

Figure 4. Filling fraction as a function of reduced cell thickness, including all surrounding SEM panels.

Reproduced from the original RSC article with full acknowledgement.

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