%0 Journal Article
%T Electrostatic repulsion-driven crystallization model arising from filament networks
%A Zhenwei Yao
%A Monica Olvera de la Cruz
%J Physics
%D 2013
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevE.87.042605
%X The crystallization of bundles in filament networks interacting via long-range repulsions in confinement is described by a phenomenological model. The model demonstrates the formation of the hexagonal crystalline order via the interplay of the confinement potential and the filament-filament repulsion. Two distinct crystallization mechanisms in the short- and large- screening length regimes are discussed, and the phase diagram is obtained. Simulation of large bundles predicts the existence of topological defects within the bundled filaments. This electrostatic repulsion-driven crystallization model arising from studying filament networks can even find a more general context extending to charged colloidal systems.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.2003v1