Homogeneous melting near the superheat limit of hard-sphere crystals | |
Wang F1; Wang ZR2; Peng Y1; Zheng ZY(郑中玉)3,4; Han YL1 | |
发表期刊 | SOFT MATTER |
2018-04-07 | |
卷号 | 14期号:13页码:2447-2453 |
ISSN | 1744-683X |
摘要 | A defect-free crystal can be superheated into a metastable state above its melting point and eventually melts via homogeneous nucleation. Further increasing the temperature leads to the metastable crystal becoming unstable and melting catastrophically once beyond its superheat limit. The homogeneous melting is not well studied near the superheat limit and this limit is difficult to measure accurately, even for the simplest model of hard-sphere crystals. Here our molecular-dynamics simulations identify its superheat limit at volume fraction phi(limit) = 0.494 +/- 0.003, which is higher than the previous theoretical estimations. We found that the hard-sphere crystal at the superheat limit does not satisfy Born's melting criterion, but has a vanishing bulk modulus, i.e. a spinodal instability, which preempts other thermodynamic or mechanical instabilities. At the strong superheating regime, the nucleation deviates from the assumptions in the classical nucleation theory. In contrast to crystallization which often develops nuclei with various intermediate structures, the melting of face-centered cubic (fcc) hard-sphere crystal does not produce intermediate structures such as body-centered cubic (bcc) crystallites although bcc is more stable than fcc at the strong superheating regime. Moreover, we found that the time evolutions of the order parameters and the pressure all exhibit a compressed exponential function, in contrast to the stretched exponential relaxation of supercooled liquids. The compressed exponential functions have the same exponent, which poses a new challenge to theory. |
DOI | 10.1039/c7sm02291c |
收录类别 | SCI ; EI |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000436084300002 |
关键词[WOS] | Colloidal Crystals ; Elastic-constants ; 2 Dimensions ; Nucleation ; Entropy ; Liquid ; Instabilities ; Suspensions ; Mechanisms ; Transition |
WOS研究方向 | Chemistry ; Materials Science ; Physics ; Polymer Science |
WOS类目 | Chemistry, Physical ; Materials Science, Multidisciplinary ; Physics, Multidisciplinary ; Polymer Science |
项目资助者 | RGC grants(GRF16301514 ; A-HKUST616/14) |
论文分区 | 一类 |
力学所作者排名 | 4 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://dspace.imech.ac.cn/handle/311007/77644 |
专题 | 微重力重点实验室 |
通讯作者 | Han YL |
作者单位 | 1.Hong Kong Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Phys, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China 2.Chongqing Univ, Dept Phys, Chongqing 401331, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Mech, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 4.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, 19 A Yuquan Rd, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Wang F,Wang ZR,Peng Y,et al. Homogeneous melting near the superheat limit of hard-sphere crystals[J]. SOFT MATTER,2018,14,13,:2447-2453. |
APA | Wang F,Wang ZR,Peng Y,Zheng ZY,&Han YL.(2018).Homogeneous melting near the superheat limit of hard-sphere crystals.SOFT MATTER,14(13),2447-2453. |
MLA | Wang F,et al."Homogeneous melting near the superheat limit of hard-sphere crystals".SOFT MATTER 14.13(2018):2447-2453. |
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