Connectivity percolation in suspensions of attractive square-well spherocylinders

As shown in the following, in which a recently devel- oped effective medium theory and the critical path approx- imation (CPA) are used to interpret the simulation results, the

This argument relies on a derivation of the depen- dence of the nematic order parameter S on aspect ratio D/L and volume fraction η, based on an effective single-particle cell

If the dynamics of crystallization in this system were purely diffusive, the crystal nucleation rate would be inversely proportional to the solvent viscosity.. However, we observe

In the high-density phase diagram of hard ellipsoids of revolution we have found a crystal that is more stable than the stretched-fcc structure proposed by Frenkel and Mulder 关 2

That is, at a given volume fraction and irrespective of whether the chosen contact shell diameter is below or above the percolation threshold, we first reduce the

Single particle free volume in the surrounding liquid (circles, black) in comparison to the single particle free volume of particles that are going to crystallize (squares, red) and

Through a combined analysis of real- and reciprocal-space data, a picture of a two-step crystallization process is supported: First, dense, amorphous clusters form which then act

covering the entire range of aspect ratios from spheres to extremely slender needles. A new version of connectedness percolation theory is introduced and tested against