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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 113, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.165504
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- U.S. National Science Foundation [CBET 1402117]
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [1403118] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Sought-after ordered structures of mixtures of hard anisotropic nanoparticles can often be thermodynamically unfavorable due to the components' geometric incompatibility to densely pack into regular lattices. A simple compatibilization rule is identified wherein the particle sizes are chosen such that the order-disorder transition pressures of the pure components match (and the entropies of the ordered phases are similar). Using this rule with representative polyhedra from the truncated-cube family that form pure-component plastic crystals, Monte Carlo simulations show the formation of plastic-solid solutions for all compositions and for a wide range of volume fractions.
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