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Colloidal Silica Clusters.
- Supervisor: Prof. dr. Peter Schall, dr. Laura Rossi
- Research Team: Lucia Baldauf
- Goal: Understanding how packing behaviour of colloidal particles depends on particle shape.
- Info: P. Schall, L. Rossi, L. Baldauf
Packing of objects in confinement is an issue with far-reaching implications from biological pattern formation to information storage. The structures which emerge in confinement depend sensitively on the shape of the confined objects. It is already known how spherical particles pack in confinement, and recent computer simulations show how the packing of perfect cubes in small volumes differs from this. In this work we investigate the transition from cube- to sphere-packing experimentally, using superball-shaped colloidal particles.