The low temperature interface between the gas and solid phases of hard spheres with a short-ranged attraction
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-10-31 v2 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
At low temperature, spheres with a very short-ranged attraction exist as a close-packed solid coexisting with an infinitely dilute gas. We find that the ratio of the interfacial tension between these two phases to the thermal energy diverges as the range of the attraction goes to zero. The large tensions when the interparticle attractions are short-ranged may be why globular proteins only crystallise over a narrow range of conditions.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9810018,
title = {The low temperature interface between the gas and solid phases of hard spheres with a short-ranged attraction},
author = {Richard P. Sear},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9810018},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, no figures (v2 has change of notation to agree with that of Stell)