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Methods of Ex Situ and In Situ Investigations of Structural Transformations: The Case of Crystallization of Metallic Glasses
Published on: June 7, 2018
Crystallization of confined non-Brownian spheres by vibrational annealing
1Departamento de Física Aplicada, CINVESTAV-Mérida, A. P. 73 Cordemex, Mérida, Yucatán 97310, México.
Abstract:
We introduce an experimental method to crystallize ensembles of non-Brownian spheres confined in narrow containers. The method is based on programmed vibrations and a cooling procedure (annealing). Starting with a granular gas, the system slowly relaxes into a solid ordered structure: Body-centered-tetragonal and face-centered-cubic single crystals are obtained depending on the dimensions of the capillaries. Dry and lubricated beads behave differently, indicating that a sticking coefficient between the particles is important in the dynamics of the crystallization.
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