Crystal to crystal transformation in soft ionic microgels : Kinetics and the role of local mechanical susceptibilities
Ganguly, Saswati ; Nöjd, Sofi LU ; Yethiraj, Anand ; Schurtenberger, Peter LU
and Mohanty, Priti S.
LU
(2023)
In Physical Review Materials
7(8).
- Abstract
We report confocal microscopy experiments of electric-field-driven crystal-crystal transformations in microgel colloids with varying particle softness. The transformation kinetics are well described by phenomenological nucleation and growth theory. Using a spatial projection formalism, we determine local susceptibilities to affine shear deformation and nonaffine defect formation in the parent crystal. Curiously, the softer particles have lower shear strain susceptibility, while nonaffine susceptibility and phenomenological growth coefficients depend nonmonotonically on particle softness.
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- author
- Ganguly, Saswati
; Nöjd, Sofi
LU
; Yethiraj, Anand
; Schurtenberger, Peter
LU
and Mohanty, Priti S.
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023-08
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
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- Physical Review Materials
- volume
- 7
- issue
- 8
- article number
- L080401
- publisher
- American Physical Society
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85172925823
- ISSN
- 2475-9953
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.L080401
- language
- English
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publisher = {{American Physical Society}},
series = {{Physical Review Materials}},
title = {{Crystal to crystal transformation in soft ionic microgels : Kinetics and the role of local mechanical susceptibilities}},
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doi = {{10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.L080401}},
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