Nature Communications (May 2019)

Using symmetry to elucidate the importance of stoichiometry in colloidal crystal assembly

  • Nathan A. Mahynski,
  • Evan Pretti,
  • Vincent K. Shen,
  • Jeetain Mittal

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10031-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Theoretical schemes to predict colloidal crystals of arbitrary complexity are highly desirable. Here the authors develop a general approach based on symmetry and stoichiometric constraints that predicts the stability of multicomponent colloidal lattices more efficiently than traditional methodologies.