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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Soft Matter Physics

Background:

  • Understanding the structure of amorphous materials is crucial for predicting their properties.
  • Measuring the local structure and symmetry in disordered systems remains a significant challenge.
  • Existing methods struggle to link processing, history, structure, and properties in amorphous materials.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and demonstrate a novel method for quantifying bond-orientational order in amorphous colloidal packings.
  • To establish a connection between processing methods (centrifugation vs. sedimentation) and the resulting local order.
  • To enable the study of structure-property relationships in disordered systems across various length scales.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized scanning transmission microbeam small-angle X-ray scattering (μSAXS) to analyze colloidal packings.
  • Statistically analyzed angular correlations in μSAXS patterns to quantify local bond-orientational order.
  • Modulated interparticle potentials using salt and surfactant additives to tune local order.

Main Results:

  • Successfully quantified proportions of bond-orientational order in nearest-neighbor clusters of colloidal silica particles.
  • Demonstrated that local order can be tuned by adjusting interparticle potentials and processing methods.
  • Observed that centrifugation yields more pronounced order than sedimentation, reflecting ground state order at lower packing fractions.

Conclusions:

  • The developed diffraction-based method provides a powerful tool for characterizing local structure in amorphous systems.
  • This technique bridges the gap between processing, structure, and properties in disordered materials.
  • The approach is applicable across diverse length scales, offering insights into various amorphous systems and particle interactions.