Pore configuration landscape of granular crystallization

Emergence and growth of crystalline domains in granular media remains under-explored. Here, the authors analyse tomographic snapshots from partially recrystallized packings of spheres using persistent homology and find agreement with proposed transitions based on continuous deformation of octahedral...

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Main Authors: M. Saadatfar, H. Takeuchi, V. Robins, N. Francois, Y. Hiraoka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15082