Clustering-Induced Attraction in Granular Mixtures of Rods and Spheres.

Depletion-induced aggregation of rods enhanced by clustering is observed to produce a novel model of attractive pairs of rods separated by a line of spheres in a quasi-2D, vertically-shaken, granular gas of rods and spheres. We show that the stability of these peculiar granular aggregates increases...

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Main Authors: Gustavo M Rodríguez-Liñán, Yuri Nahmad-Molinari, Gabriel Pérez-Ángel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4878801?pdf=render