Two-Dimensional Interfacial Colloidal Crystals

Abstract

Polystyrene spheres (2450 \AA{} in diameter) are trapped in a surface energy well at water/air interface. Because of asymmetry of charge distribution, electrical dipoles are associated with each interfacial particle. The dipole-dipole repulsive interactions organize the polystyrene spheres into a two-dimensional triangular lattice. The direct microscopic observations of such an interfacial colloidal crystal are reported for the first time.

References

Page 1

	Year	Citations
Evidence for a Liquid-to-Crystal Phase Transition in a Classical, Two-Dimensional Sheet of Electrons C. C. Grimes, G. W. Adams Physical Review Letters Materials ScienceQuantum LiquidEngineeringPhysicsElectron-crystal Phase Transition	1979	1.1K
Phase Transition in Elastic Disks B. J. Alder, T. E. Wainwright Physical Review Phase TransitionsEngineeringContinuum MechanicSoft MatterTwo-dimensional System	1962	769
Monte Carlo simulation of the classical two-dimensional one-component plasma R. C. Gann, Sudip Chakravarty, G. V. Chester Physical review. B, Condensed matter Solid PhaseEngineeringFluid PhasePhysicsQuantum Lattice System	1979	256
Temperature Dependence of the Shear Modulus and Melting of the Two-Dimensional Electron Solid R. Morf Physical Review Letters EngineeringTemperature DependenceElectron DiffractionPhysical PropertyQuantum Materials	1979	239
Long-Range Order in Two- and Three-Dimensional Smectic-<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>B</mml:mi></mml:math>Liquid-Crystal Films D. E. Moncton, R. Pindak Physical Review Letters X-ray CrystallographyCrystal StructureEngineeringLiquid Crystalline ElastomerThin Film Process Technology	1979	208
Evidence for an Orientationally Ordered Two-Dimensional Fluid Phase from Molecular-Dynamics Calculations Daan Frenkel, J. P. McTague Physical Review Letters EngineeringFluid MechanicsLennard-jones SystemSimple LiquidMolecular Dynamics	1979	175
Phase Transitions in a Two-Dimensional System Physical Review Letters Quantum LiquidTwo-stage Melting BehaviorPhase TransitionsEngineeringLennard-jones System	1980	105
A hard-disc system, an experimental model Piotr Pierański, J. Małecki, W. Kuczyński, Philosophical magazine. A/Philosophical magazine. A. Physics of condensed matter. Structure, defects and mechanical properties EngineeringMechanical EngineeringComputational MechanicsSoft MatterMechanics	1978	58
Monolayer studies Erwin Sheppard, Noubar Tcheurekdjian Journal of Colloid and Interface Science	1968	54

Page 1