title: Densest columnar structures of hard spheres from sequential deposition.
abstract: The rich variety of densest columnar structures of identical hard spheres inside a cylinder can surprisingly be constructed from a simple and computationally fast sequential deposition of cylinder-touching spheres, if the cylinder-to-sphere diameter ratio is D is an element of [1,2.7013]. This provides a direction for theoretically deriving all these densest structures and for constructing such densest packings with nano-, micro-, colloidal, or charged particles, which all self-assemble like hard spheres.
authors.affiliation: Foams and Complex Systems, School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland. epkeiyeah@yahoo.com.hk
authors.forename: Ho-Kei
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Chan