Movie S4.
Periodic bulk crystal simulations are performed with superballs with a fluctuating simulation box. Superballs are dispersed with two species of depletants, one with size ratio q1 = 0.35 and one with size ratio q2 = 0.04. For these parameters, The square lattice configuration is stable. By decreasing the size ratio of the smaller species from q2 = 0.04 to q2 = 0.032, we observe a transition into a canted phase, as we observe when the superballs are dispersed only with depletants with a size ratio q1 = 0.35. When the size of the smaller depletant is once again increased (q2 = 0.04), the square phase is restored.
Shape-sensitive crystallization in colloidal superball fluids
PNAS. 2015. 112:5286-5290 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1415467112