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Anisotropic colloids through non-trivial buckling

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We present a study on buckling of colloidal particles, including experimental, theoretical and numerical developments. Oil-filled thin shells prepared by emulsion templating show buckling in mixtures of water and ethanol, due to dissolution of the core in the external medium. This leads to conformations with a single depression, either axisymmetric or polygonal depending on the geometrical features of the shells. These conformations could be theoretically and/or numerically reproduced in a model of homogeneous spherical thin shells with bending and stretching elasticity, submitted to an isotropic external pressure.

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  1. Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique, CNRS UMR 5588 and Université Joseph Fourier, 140 avenue de la Physique, 38402, Saint-Martin d’Hères Cedex, France

    C. Quilliet

  2. Soft Condensed Matter, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    C. Quilliet, C. Zoldesi, A. van Blaaderen & A. Imhof

  3. DEAS, Harvard University, 29, Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

    C. Riera

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An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2010-10633-0.

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Quilliet, C., Zoldesi, C., Riera, C. et al. Anisotropic colloids through non-trivial buckling. Eur. Phys. J. E 27, 13–20 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2007-10365-2

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