Stability of Colloidal Quasicrystals
A. R. Denton, H. Lowen
Abstract
Freezing of charge-stabilized colloidal suspensions and relative stabilities of crystals and quasicrystals are studied using thermodynamic perturbation theory. Macroion interactions are modelled by effective pair potentials combining electrostatic repulsion with polymer-depletion or van der Waals attraction. Comparing free energies -- counterion terms included -- for elementary crystals and rational approximants to icosahedral quasicrystals, parameters are identified for which one-component quasicrystals are stabilized by a compromise between packing entropy and cohesive energy.
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