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SUBMITTER: Avvisati G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5571468 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Avvisati Guido G Dasgupta Tonnishtha T Dijkstra Marjolein M
ACS nano 20170808 8
Colloidal photonic crystals display peculiar optical properties that make them particularly suitable for application in different fields. However, the low packing fraction of the targeted structures usually poses a real challenge in the fabrication stage. Here, we propose a route to colloidal photonic crystals via a binary mixture of hard tetramers and hard spheres. By combining theory and computer simulations, we calculate the phase diagram as well as the stacking diagram of the mixture and sho ...[more]