Study on the Crystal Growth and Solid-Liquid Transition using Monodisperse Latex

Abstract

Order-disorder transition in monodisperse latex is reviewed from experimental and theor-etical points of view. The ordered arrays of latex particles are found to be a good model for crystal growth and melting phenomena. It is emphasized that order-disorder transition in mo-nodisperse latex is essentially the same phenomena as solid-liquid transition in molecular level and cannot be explained by the present theory of colloid interaction. Recent advances in co-mputer experiment on solid-liquid transition is also reviewed and the idea of Alder transition is introduced. Experimental results seem to support the existence of Alder transition in monodisperse latex.