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Doctoral Thesis
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11606/T.76.2008.tde-26052014-110806
Document
Author
Full name
Línder Cândido da Silva
E-mail
Institute/School/College
Knowledge Area
Date of Defense
Published
São Carlos, 2008
Supervisor
Committee
Oliveira Junior, Osvaldo Novais de (President)
Barbosa, Márcia Cristina Bernardes
Leite, Vitor Barbanti Pereira
Libero, Valter Luiz
Petrilli, Helena Maria
Title in Portuguese
Simulações por dinâmica molecular aplicadas ao estudo de defeitos em cristais coloidais bidimensionais
Keywords in Portuguese
Cristais coloidais
Defeitos pontuais
Difusão
Dinâmica molecular
Energia de formação de defeitos
Abstract in Portuguese
Suspensões coloidais de microesferas de poliestireno carregadas proporcionam um sistema experimental excelente para estudar muitos problemas em física da matéria condensada. Sob condições apropriadas as partículas nessas suspensões podem se auto-organizar em um cristal com ordem de longo alcance, o chamado cristal coloidal. Neste trabalho apresentamos resultados de simulações por Dinâmica Molecular relacionados a defeitos pontuais, vacâncias e interstícios, em um cristal coloidal 2D. Calculamos a energia de formação e a interação destes defeitos pontuais, mostrando que um interstício é mais provável de ser criado do que uma vacância e que a interação entre os defeitos (vacância-vacância e interstício-interstício) é atrativa. Em conjunto esses resultados apontaram que os defeitos pontuais podem afetar o mecanismo de fusão do cristal coloidal 2D. Com relação à dinâmica dos defeitos, o foco foi sobre as vacâncias. Calculamos as entalpias de migração deste defeito de uma forma original, baseada na troca de topologias. Concluímos que a vacância não difunde de acordo com um único mecanismo, mas sim um misto de dois comportamentos, são eles: relação de Arrhenius corrigida e relação de potência com a temperatura. Calculamos também as entalpias e entropias relativas de formação das topologias da vacância, o que possibilitou identificar as topologias mais estáveis. Acreditamos que esses resultados serão importantes para trabalhos experimentais envolvendo interfaces e superfícies sólidas.
Title in English
Simulações por dinâmica molecular aplicadas ao estudo de defeitos em cristais coloidais bidimensionais
Keywords in English
Colloidal crystals
Diffusion
Formation energy of defects
Molecular dynamics
Point defects
Abstract in English
Colloidal suspensions of charged polystyrene microspheres provide an excellent experimental system to study many problems in condensed matter physics. Under appropriate conditions the particles in these suspensions organize themselves in a long-range-ordered crystal, the so-called colloidal crystal. In this thesis we report Molecular Dynamics simulations on point defects, vacancies and interstitials, in a 2D colloidal crystal. We have calculated the formation energy and interaction of these point defects, as well as the energy barriers between the various topological configurations that the defects may adopt while in thermal equilibrium. It is shown that the interstitials are more likely to be formed than the vacancies, and the interaction between defects (vacancy-vacancy and interstitial-interstitial) is attractive. Taken together, these results indicate that point defects may affect the melting process of a 2D colloidal crystal. With regard to the dynamics of the defects, emphasis was placed on the vacancies. The enthalpy for migration of a vacancy was calculated on the basis of exchanges between topologies. We concluded that the vacancy does not diffuse according to a single mechanism, but rather through a mixture of two processes: one is a modified Arrhenius mechanism and the other is represented by a power-law dependence on the temperature. We also calculated the relative enthalpies and entropies associated with the formation of the different topologies of vacancies, which allowed identification of the most stable topologies. We believe these results may have important bearing on experimental works involving interfaces and solid surfaces.
 
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2014-05-28
 
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