By Janne-Mieke Meijer
This thesis provides an in-depth examine at the impact of colloidal particle form and formation mechanism on self-organization and the ultimate crystal symmetries that may be completed. It demonstrates how cutting-edge X-ray diffraction recommendations can be utilized to provide specified characterizations of colloidal crystal constructions ready utilizing assorted self-assembly options, and the way clever platforms can be utilized to enquire illness formation and diffusion in-situ. the most awesome phenomena exhibited via focused suspensions of colloidal debris is the spontaneous self-organization into constructions with long-range spatial and/or orientational orders. The research additionally unearths the delicate structural adaptations that come up by way of altering the particle form from round to that of a rounded dice. specifically, the roundness of the dice corners, whilst mixed with the self-organization pathway, convective meeting or sedimentation, was once proven to steer the ultimate crystal symmetries.
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