Menath, Johannes ; Mohammadi, Reza ; Grauer, Jens Christian ; Deters, Claudius ; Böhm, Maike ; Liebchen, Benno ; Janssen, Liesbeth M. C. ; Löwen, Hartmut ; Vogel, Nicolas (2023)
Acoustic Crystallization of 2D Colloidal Crystals.
In: Advanced Materials, 2023, 35 (2)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00023717
Article, Secondary publication, Publisher's Version
Item Type: | Article |
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Type of entry: | Secondary publication |
Title: | Acoustic Crystallization of 2D Colloidal Crystals |
Language: | English |
Date: | 22 August 2023 |
Place of Publication: | Darmstadt |
Year of primary publication: | 2023 |
Publisher: | Wiley-VCH |
Journal or Publication Title: | Advanced Materials |
Volume of the journal: | 35 |
Issue Number: | 2 |
Collation: | 13 Seiten |
DOI: | 10.26083/tuprints-00023717 |
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Origin: | Secondary publication DeepGreen |
Abstract: | 2D colloidal crystallization provides a simple strategy to produce defined nanostructure arrays over macroscopic areas. Regularity and long‐range order of such crystals is essential to ensure functionality, but difficult to achieve in self‐assembling systems. Here, a simple loudspeaker setup for the acoustic crystallization of 2D colloidal crystals (ACDC) of polystyrene, microgels, and core–shell particles at liquid interfaces is introduced. This setup anneals an interfacial colloidal monolayer and affords an increase in average grain size by almost two orders of magnitude. The order is characterized via the structural color of the colloidal crystal, the acoustic annealing process is optimized via the frequency and the amplitude of the applied sound wave, and its efficiency is rationalized via the surface coverage‐dependent interactions within the interfacial colloidal monolayer. Computer simulations show that multiple rearrangement mechanisms at different length scales, from the local motion around voids to grain boundary movements via consecutive particle rotations around common centers, collude to remove defects. The experimentally simple ACDC process, paired with the demonstrated applicability toward complex particle systems, provides access to highly defined nanostructure arrays for a wide range of research communities. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | colloids, crystallization, monolayers, self‐assembly, structural color |
Identification Number: | 2206593 |
Status: | Publisher's Version |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-237175 |
Classification DDC: | 500 Science and mathematics > 530 Physics |
Divisions: | 05 Department of Physics > Institute for Condensed Matter Physics > Theory of Soft Matter |
Date Deposited: | 22 Aug 2023 14:06 |
Last Modified: | 18 Oct 2023 11:30 |
SWORD Depositor: | Deep Green |
URI: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/23717 |
PPN: | 512376379 |
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