{"id":4745,"date":"2018-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2018\/01\/01\/local-melting-attracts-grain-boundaries-in-colloidal-polycrystals\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:01:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:01:37","slug":"local-melting-attracts-grain-boundaries-in-colloidal-polycrystals","status":"publish","type":"physics_publications","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/publications\/local-melting-attracts-grain-boundaries-in-colloidal-polycrystals\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Melting Attracts Grain Boundaries in Colloidal Polycrystals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"authors\"><span class=\"studauthor\">Caitlin Ellen Cash<\/span>, <span class=\"studauthor\">Jeremy Wang<\/span>, <span class=\"studauthor\">Maya Maria Martirossyan<\/span>, <span class=\"studauthor\">Kemper Ludlow<\/span>, <span class=\"studauthor\">Alejandro E. Baptista<\/span>, <span class=\"studauthor\">Nina M. Brown<\/span>, <span class=\"studauthor\">Eli Joseph Weissler<\/span>, Jatin Abacousnac, and Sharon Gerbode*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"doc-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/02\/pub-097.pdf\">Local Melting Attracts Grain Boundaries in Colloidal Polycrystals (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"journal\"><span class=\"journal-title\">Physical Review Letters<\/span> <strong data-vol=\"120\">120<\/strong> <span id=\"journal-year\">(2018)<\/span> <span id=\"journal-pages\" data-pages=\"18002\">18002<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We find that laser-induced local melting attracts and deforms grain boundaries in 2D colloidal crystals. When a melted region in contact with the edge of a crystal grain recrystallizes, it deforms the grain boundary<span class=\"s1\">\u201a\u00c4\u00ee<\/span>this attraction is driven by the multiplicity of deformed grain boundary configurations. Furthermore, the attraction provides a method to fabricate artificial colloidal crystal grains of arbitrary shape, enabling new experimental studies of grain boundary dynamics and ultimately hinting at a novel approach for fabricating materials with designer microstructures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caitlin Ellen Cash, Jeremy Wang, Maya Maria Martirossyan, Kemper Ludlow, Alejandro E. Baptista, Nina M. Brown, Eli Joseph Weissler, Jatin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","publication_author":[17],"class_list":["post-4745","physics_publications","type-physics_publications","status-publish","hentry","publication_author-gerbode"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_publications\/4745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_publications"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_publications"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_author?post=4745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}