Rotational Columnar Structures of Soft Spheres

Chiral photonic crystals from sphere packing

“…In practical experiments, as long as the spheres do not deviate far from hard spheres, i.e., particle shape plays a leading role among other interparticle interactions, the self-assembled structures will be similar to the densest-packed structures. The densestpacked structures have been previously identified, which depend on the ratio of the cylinder diameter D to the hardsphere diameter d. [38][39][40][53][54][55][56] The configurations of dipolar hard spheres can be found in ref. 57.…”

“…The densest-packed structures have been previously identified, which depend on the ratio of the cylinder diameter D to the hard-sphere diameter d . 38–40,53–56 The configurations of dipolar hard spheres can be found in ref. 57.…”

“…The densest-packed structures of monodisperse hard spheres in a cylinder have been identified in previous work. 38–43 Table 1 lists the average contact number and chirality of the first eight densest structures described in ref. 39, corresponding to the ratio 1 ≤ D / d ≤ 2.141.…”

“…The densest-packed structures of monodisperse hard spheres in a cylinder have been identified in previous work. [38][39][40][41][42][43] Table 1…”

“…">The densest-packed structures of identical hard spheres in a cylinderThe densest-packed structures of monodisperse hard spheres in a cylinder have been identified in previous work. [38][39][40][41][42][43] Table 1…”