Effects of scars on icosahedral crystalline shell stability under external pressure

Duanduan Wan, Mark J. Bowick (Lead / Corresponding author), Rastko Sknepnek

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Abstract

We study how the stability of spherical crystalline shells under external pressure is influenced by the defect structure. In particular, we compare stability for shells with a minimal set of topologically required defects to shells with extended defect arrays (grain boundary "scars" with nonvanishing net disclination charge). We perform both Monte Carlo and conjugate gradient simulations to compare how shells with and without scars deform quasistatically under external hydrostatic pressure. We find that the critical pressure at which shells collapse is lowered for scarred configurations that break icosahedral symmetry and raised for scars that preserve icosahedral symmetry. The particular shapes which arise from breaking of an initial icosahedrally symmetric shell depend on the Föppl-von Kármán number.

Original languageEnglish
Article number033205
JournalPhysical Review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
Volume91
Issue number3
Early online date19 Mar 2015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2015

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