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Phase diagrams of liquidlike, alloy crystal-like and amorphous solid-like(AS) structures have been obtained for the exhaustively deionized aqueous suspensions of the binary mixtures of polystyrene or silica spheres. Diameter, polydispersity index (standard deviation of diameter divided by the mean diameter) and size ratio of the binary spheres (diameter of small sphere divided by that of large one) range from 85 to 136 nm, 0.07 to 0.26 and 0.76 to 0.93, respectively. Close-up color photographs of the alloy crystals are taken and the crystal structure has been analysed from reflection spectroscopy. Most of the alloy crystals aresubstitutional solid-solution (sss) type and body-contered cubic lattice structure. Formation of the alloy crystals is attributed to the important role of the expanded electrical double layers in the deionized condition and increase toward unity in the effective size ratio, which is the effective diameter of small sphere including double layer divided by that of large sphere AS structure is formed at the rather high concentrations of two spheres, where the thickness of the electrical double layer is thin and the effective size rado is comparatively small.
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Okubo, T., Fujita, H. Phase diagram of alloy crystal in the exhaustively deionized suspensions of binary mixtures of colloidal spheres. Colloid Polym Sci 274, 368–374 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00654057
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