Abstract
A general phase plot is proposed for discrete particle shells that allows for thermal fluctuations of the shell geometry and of the inter-particle connectivities. The phase plot contains a first-order melting transition, a buckling transition, and a collapse transition and is used to interpret the thermodynamics of microbiological shells.
- Received 19 November 2019
- Accepted 16 March 2020
- Corrected 17 April 2020
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.158101
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17 April 2020
Correction: The previously published Figure 2 was converted improperly during the production process and its rendition has been corrected.