Confinement Induced Plastic Crystal-to-Crystal Transitions in Rodlike Particles with Long-Ranged Repulsion

Physical Review Letters
Bing LiuArnout Imhof

Abstract

Colloidal particles in geometrical confinement display a complex variety of packing structures different from their three-dimensional (3D) bulk counterpart. Here, we confined charged rodlike colloids with long-ranged repulsions to a thin wedge-shaped cell and show, by quantitative 3D confocal microscopy, that not only their positional but also their orientational order depends sensitively upon the slit width. Synchronized with transitions in lattice symmetry and number of layers confinement induces plastic crystal-to-crystal transitions. A model analysis suggests that this complex sequence of more or less rotationally ordered states originates from the subtle competition between the electrostatic repulsion of a rod with the wall and with its neighbors.

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