Elastic forces drive nonequilibrium pattern formation in a model of nanocrystal ion exchange
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021
Recommended citation: L.B. Frechette, C. Dellago, and P.L. Geissler. “Elastic forces drive nonequilibrium pattern formation in a model of nanocrystal ion exchange.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 118, e2114551118 (2021). https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2114551118
We used kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of a model for lattice-mismatched solids demonstrated how nonequilibrium patterns such as stripes can arise in heterostructured nanocrystals produced by cation exchange of different-sized cations.